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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown. Already announced as a favorite son. Pat Brown, after a remarkably successful first year as Governor, is beginning to get serious notions about the 'White House. He is therefore extremely careful never to let the state's aspiring visitors get far out of his sight. As with Kennedy and Humphrey. Stu Symington's speaking dates and travel schedules were set up by the Brown-dominated Democratic State Central Committee...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
...frame, he is often mistaken for a weight thrower by track fans. But this year he is making Abilene Christian forget about Morrow. Son of a Mason City, Iowa, railroad switchman, Woodhouse was a promising sprinter in high school, was given a scholarship sight unseen from Abilene Christian. When he arrived, Coach Oliver Jackson got a shock. "When he got off that train." Jackson recalls. "I said to myself that if he ever ran as fast as 10.2 I'd be surprised. But the first time I timed him, he ran 9.9 in cross-country shoes. I took...
...signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs a profitable blackmailing business, and an old eccentric whose blood is still faintly warm manages, at 87, to be more venereous than venerable; he pays cash for the titillating sight of gartered female legs. Most outrageous: ah amateur geriatrician, himself 79, who gathers data by digging up bad news, mailing it to friends, and asking them to check their pulse rates...
...grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote in blood, at a moment when the world was sick of the sight of blood, a great, pathetic page in the history of courage...