Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee also demanded coverage. While TIME stringers kept a close eye on Clinton, last year's trouble spot, Chicago Bureau Correspondent Burt Meyers landed in Nashville, began preparing for the opening of Nashville schools this week...
...prove his mettle, he went to Tokyo last week for a one-man show, proceeded to paint the complete exhibition on the spot...
SAFETY VIOLATIONS by truckers are worrying ICC, which is pushing to bar six of the offending truck lines from highways, plans to get tough with all lines. In nationwide spot check, ICC inspectors surveyed 50,000 trucks, stopped about 25% because they looked or sounded unsafe. Closer examination showed that 88% of them violated at least one safety rule governing interstate trucking and that 19% were in hazardous condition...
...Thursday morning 54-year-old Strom Thurmond was still on his feet. Wires from back home began to pour in on other Southerners, demanding that they help Strom Thurmond in his heroic effort. They realized quickly how Thurmond's doublecross had put them on the spot with their constituents. Urgently, angrily, they put in phone calls to home-state newspapers, explaining the harsh facts: Thurmond was not helping the cause; he was playing with dynamite...
...Algiers. All are under 30. Last week French paratroopers found the trail of two of FLN's top terrorists-Mourad, 27, a mechanic turned bombmaker, and Ramel, 26, a 250-lb. onetime Zouave in the French army, who plotted rebel forays from the Casbah. Led to the spot by a native informer, two companies of French paratroopers boxed in Mourad and Ramel on the third floor of a once ornate, four-story, Turkish-style house in the Casbah. Firing, their burp guns, the two rebels held out for an hour. Then one shouted. "We'll surrender, but only...