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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former governor of Connecticut, war-time OPA administrator, and ambassador to India stated to a Sanders Theatre audience of nearly 800, that both parties this year would probably stick to "older and more familiar ground...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Bowles Claims Parties Avoid Important Issues | 4/11/1956 | See Source »

...Russia, was getting to be almost like one of the family. Journeying northward from London, he stopped in at Lancashire's teeming seaside Blackpool, smiled amiably avuncular smiles right and left among the crowds of vacationing Britons, and gave a honeymooning bride a box of chocolates. Offering a stick of rock candy to three-year-old Richard Davies, 54-year-old Georgy said: "I have a grandson of this age. His name is Peter. This is for peace between Peter and Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Getting Set for B. & K. | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Managing Editor Alan Max instead told the eight staffers then in the office to stick to their desks. Then staffers put in calls to the Daily Worker's Lawyer Harry Sacher and New York newspapers that "we're being raided. Send a man over." While 40 reporters and TV cameramen crowded into the office, the Worker's reporters batted out copy for the 6 p.m. deadline. But an hour before deadline the T-men shooed everybody out and padlocked the Worker's offices. Staffers walked two stories downstairs to the offices of Morning Freiheit (the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Raid on the Worker | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Enthusiast | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big If | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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