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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a fiendish plan. Trains that mutineers refused to leave were rerouted to other destinations, leaving the rebels miles from home. Twelve sit-down rebels found that their train was going backward toward its point of origin. Huffed Brian Harbour, operations chief of London Transport: "We can't stand for chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway and Paris Metro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt in the Underground | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...window I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Unfortunately, from the stand-point of contemporary rationalizers of the New Deal, there seems to have been a great deal of groping with, of course, a maximum of philosophical and theoretical support for this blind exploring. But nowhere, try as Schlesinger may to produce one, does a coherent body of thought emerge to tie up the loose ends of the New Deal. There seems substantial validity in the view Edmund Wilson took of the New Deal in 1934: "The work which the New Deal is attempting--the stocktaking of the country's resources, the inquiry into the condition...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Schlesinger Restages New Deal With its Clash of Characters | 1/23/1959 | See Source »

...wide, as a marshal's backside shouldn't. Not only that, but it was so close to the TV camera that it blotted out the scenery. Still, he was the marshal, and when he whipped his Colt from its holster and fired at the varmint standing at the other end of the dusty, deserted street, western fans could only suppose that things were back to normal. But on ABC's Maverick this week, nothing returned to normal. The marshal's first shot missed his man, and so did five more. Cried the varmint: "Shall I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Parodies Regained | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...this year's representatives were elected unopposed. Nor was this situation due to the presence of several overwhelmingly popular candidates, but rather, in some cases, to an absence of any candidates at all, until the very night of the election. One House Committee actually had to recruit candidates to stand for election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Renaissance? | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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