Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
...Archibald MacLeish's anguished reappraisal of God's way with man, in a slam-bang staging by Elia Kazan...
...overboard the dogmas of Socialist Prophet Karl Marx, West Germany's Social Democratic Party issued a new statement of party principles that proclaimed: "Free competition as far as possible, planning only as necessary." And in the bustling, middle-class city of Stuttgart, well-tailored, paunchy successors of the slam-bang trade union streetfighters who formed Soviets in Germany four decades ago rode in their limousines to the sedate national convention of self-satisfied bureaucrats who now constitute the German Federation of Trade Unions...
Another grand slam homer for TIME...
This summer Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...