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...afternoon last week, after the landscapers and renovators had gone for the day, a dark sedan pulled up at the Julians' house. Two men got out, broke into the house and poured gasoline through all its rooms. They laid a clumsy fuse of surgical gauze to the outside and lit it; it went out. Then they tossed a flaming kerosene torch through a window and drove away. Before the gasoline was ignited, neighbors called firemen and the house was saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The New Neighbor | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...morning last week, a green sedan rolled into the palm-shaded cobblestone square before San Juan's Fortaleza, the 300-year-old residence of Governor Luis Mufioz Marin. Out of the car burst six members of Puerto Rico's desperate little Nationalist Party. Armed with pistols, rifles and a machine gun, they sprinted for the palace entrance. Yelling "Viva Puerto Rico libre," one Nationalist got off a wild submachine-gun burst. From the arcade, from parapets, from rooftops, guards poured fire down on the attackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurrection | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Speech. He could time The Speech for anywhere from 18 to 50 minutes, depending on the size and estimated temper of his audiences. Sometimes a few score, sometimes a hundred-odd men, women & children stood staring and listening. The horns of a public-address system, mounted on a sedan, lifted the Senator's flat Ohio voice above the din of Ohio's Main Streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Mr. Republican v. Mr. Nobody | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...battered 1948 Chevrolet sedan rolled up. Douglas MacArthur stepped forth and advanced, hands in his pockets, his greasy, battered, gold-encrusted cap well down on his head. As the President stepped down, MacArthur held out his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The General Rose at Dawn | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Barron's Cleaners, a firm which services several hundred college students, is part of a larger outfit called Joslon and Dyers. An auction sale of Joslon and Dyers' plant equipment, five trucks, and a sedan is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Goes On As Barron's Plant Is Up for Auction | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

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