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...morning coffee in Texas' 102-year-old executive mansion, Democratic Governor Price Daniel nearly got plastered. While chatting with some 100 lady guests, Daniel was almost conked by a ton of collapsed ceiling, but carried on as host with stalwart aplomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...Formosa's last general elections three years ago, the candidate who carried off the top political job of mayor of the capital of Taipei was no Kuomintang (government) party stalwart, but a hard-campaigning islander named Kao Yu-shu. Nationalist leaders, painfully aware that many Formosans (Taiwanese) resented the political control of the Chinese mainlanders, were quick to get the point. Overruling the advice of old-line ward bosses (who wanted to gerrymander Taipei into an independent city and make its mayor a political appointee), Kuomintang reform politicians set out to defeat Independent Kao in the next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Broadening the Base | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet bloc countries . . . And in that way the Egyptians, in a sense, forced upon us an issue to which I think there was only one proper response. That issue was: Do nations which play both sides get better treatment than nations which are stalwart and work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Two for the Book | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...second game Leverett met Adams quite handily, 4 to 0, behind the stalwart goal-tending of Roger Corke. Ed Galvin scored twice, John Coolidge once, and Eric Franck once while Dick MacKinnon and Dave Albertson each made two assists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Quintets, Hockey Teams Meet | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

...dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights of the Harvard Man--Denis Barber ('60). (Name Withheld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADE | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

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