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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...86th Congress this week was still in the beginning of its beginning. It was the most heavily Democratic Congress since the glad, gone days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist, gone clean out of this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like pie in the sky, and Lyndon Johnson was gone clean out of this world. But the U.S. will probably keep on at a straight, steady pace -in large part because of the five powerful men who love the U.S. House of Representatives and, loving it, live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...from both the hot and cold taps in Moors Hall is hot. Elsie's is too crowded. Animals still roam the streets of Cambridge. The "Flower Drum Song" is a hit. We do not yet have a winning football team. The parking regulations are arbirary and unjust. Moreover, the sky is falling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Round-Up | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...capsule will hit the thin upper air at almost 18,000 m.p.h.-enough energy of motion to turn capsule and pilot into incandescent vapor unless it is dissipated effectively. To ground watchers, the capsule will flare like a shooting star, leaving a broad track of flame in the sky. The pilot is expected to feel, for a brief period, about 10 g of deceleration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Capsule to Earth | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. In the night sky of literary erotica, no falling starlet shines quite like Nabokov's Dolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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