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...cause of the quarrel was Democrat Bayh's belligerent drive to prevent Capehart from becoming the first Hoosier ever to serve four terms in the Senate. The specific incitement was an issue which seems likely to stir emotions of candidates -and voters-from now until November. The issue: Communist Cuba, and what to do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Pugilists | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Barrier of Cost." Any organization as revolutionary as Medikaiser was bound to stir up storms of controversy about the quality of its medical care and its general effect on the practice of medicine. But impartial medical authorities in California rate Kaiser hospitals' care as "topnotch." and the groups' medical care as "very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prepaid Medical Care: Nation's Biggest Private Plan | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...that it was an innocently sadistic streak in him. He just had to have an outlet for fun." Behind his teasing, Roosevelt had reasons for hesitations about Frankfurter. For geographical balance, Roosevelt had wanted to name a man from the West or Midwest. Roosevelt well knew that he would stir up a storm by naming a foreign-born Jew with a well-deserved reputation as a radical advocate of liberal causes. But Frankfurter's prestige among U.S. men of law was great, and most of them could agree with the Nation's comment that the appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FELIX FRANKFURTER | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...Turks denied the accusation, privately suggested that Kassem had made the charges only to cover up his inability to crush the Kurdish rebellion, was using them as a means to stir up new public support for his shaky government. But in a pointed warning to the Iraqis, the Turks last week ordered their ambassador in Baghdad back to Turkey "to complete his vacation period" and announced that the annual military maneuvers of the Turkish army would take place next month. Where? Along the Iraqi frontier, where a little sabre rattling might help the diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Frontier Fracas | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...wind. If there is a large crop of seeds, the weevils flourish along with their food supply. If there are more weevils than plant seeds, the little bugs simply die off. Thus nature maintains a delicate balance that allows neither the puncture weed nor its weevil to stir up a population explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pest Against Pest | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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