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Where Are You Going? López Mateos climbed the slippery slopes of politics with the aid of a fine baritone speaking voice, a gift for oratory, a quick wit, and a knack for making close and lasting friendships. At college in Toluca, he was an ardent campus politician and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

But Joe Alsop is not happy. He is incorrigibly gloomy, an inveterate prophet of perdition, forever firing literate messages of despair at what he deems to be a complacent multitude of 35 million readers. His columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alsop's Foible | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

The freshman football team combined a sturdy defense with exceptional punting to preserve Grady Watts' second period touchdown and defeat Dartmouth 6 to 0 on a slippery field yesterday afternoon.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Preserve Early Score, Beat Dartmouth in Third Straight | 10/25/1958 | See Source »

Belgium. Highlights of the four-day trip: a narrow escape from being clobbered by a Fiat on the slippery cobblestones of Bruges, a state dinner with scholarly young (28) King Baudouin at the Royal Hunting Lodge, a fast-paced peek at the Brussels Fair, where she peered gingerly through fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Thus ended the latest round of hearings on the Teamsters, which added up to the greatest blot on the record of U.S. organized labor. As for Slippery Jim, he announced that he will call a special Teamster election for February (at a cost of $1,500,000) to get out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slippery Jim | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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