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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kishi took a long, hard look at resurgent Japan. went into politics. He soon became the dominant figure in the backstage maneuverings from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country's Premier (and his own Foreign Minister) when Ishibashi resigned because of bad health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PREMIER: A Vigorous Visitor with an Urgent Message | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...upset citywide election, with labor domination the issue, Minneapolitans clobbered Incumbent Mayor (since 1948) Eric Hoyer, 59, a C.L.U. stalwart and onetime house painter, handed a solid 6,000-vote majority to his opponent, Conservative Republican Lawyer P. Kenneth Peterson, 42. Some other C.L.U.-endorsed candidates fared as badly: three lost aldermanic races to independent liberals, and, more surprising, labor's representation on the school board was cut from five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Defeat for Labor | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...onto conservative paths. Replacing Vinson (deceased). Earl Warren joined with Old Liberals Black and Douglas to walk hand in hand in the direction of liberalism, and the bloc has been strengthened by Eisenhower-appointed Democrat Brennan. Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan or Felix Frankfurter go along with the solid, four-member liberal bloc often enough to make it a majority. Truman-appointed Republican Harold Burton has been virtually isolated as the court's only case-to-case conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Direction Disputed | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Boy in Town | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...Boron's principal value in high-energy fuels is its ability to bind hydrogen into a liquid or solid form, thus harness hydrogen's energy (52,000 B.T.U. per Ib. v. 18,500 for kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Element of Tomorrow | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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