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...while he tried fire-eating again, but somehow lost his taste for that, too. Now a sober 22, Andy has sworn off both fire and steel for life, has a humdrum job as a packer in a pastry-mix factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Fire & Sword | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...sober man-sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jews & Alcohol | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Circling Islands. Indonesia's rebellion is less a revolution against Sukarno than a last attempt to shock the self-intoxicated President into a state of sober reason, and a hope that the appeal for a new government may lead him to cleanse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...believe is best for our farmers." Most farm state G.O.P. Congressmen still were angrily certain that this was the worst possible political course, decided once more to ask Dwight Eisenhower to fire Benson. But Minnesota's Walter Judd was impressed by what he had seen and heard, sober second-thought: "I myself think he's been right in his policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Ezra & the Farm Vote | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...labor problem in the country had entered upon a new phase"; 3) "We were at absolute peace, and there was no nation from whom we had anything to fear." The loyal opposition's point of view, put by Historian Henry Adams, personal friend and gadfly: "Theodore is never sober, only he is drunk with himself and not with rum." But when T.R. stepped out of the White House by choice -he could have been re-elected-Adams paused. Said Adams: "I shall miss you very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Turning Point | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

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