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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanned out in a relentless search for a copy of the plank. At length they got it; when the subcommittee presented its plank to the full platform committee, a civil-rights agent smuggled out a penciled version of the wording. Now Reuther & Co. set earnestly to work. Nothing would suit the band except the insertion of a sentence in the plank reading, "We pledge to carry out these [Supreme Court] decisions," and the addition of a paragraph from the 1952 platform calling for federal civil-rights legislation, all poison to the South. (Reuther later was willing to concede that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLATFORMS: Something to Live With | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang of the long trousers: "The wrong sort of braces . . . assuming he would wear nothing so inexcusable as a belt." Tailor reserved its unkindest cut of all, however, for the brown suit that the burly Shepilov wore on his arrival in London: "All right, perhaps, for grouse shooting, but as Lord Curzon once said, 'No gentleman wears brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Could it be that Richard M. Nixon is just too whole-souled, forthright and outspoken a Republican to suit all these internationalists, whether Republican, Democratic or Communist? In all the furor whipped up by the egregious Stassen, I have heard nothing worse charged against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

HIGHER BEER PRICES for consumer will follow increases at wholesale level. New York breweries hiked prices 18? a case. Schlitz, largest U.S. producer, and other Milwaukee breweries will soon follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Dawn was breaking over Edwards Air Force Base at California's Muroc Dry Lake when the husky, dark-browed test pilot chugged up to the flight line in a battered model A Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit, picked up his crash helmet and headed for the runway where a four-engined B50 waited. Clamped tight to the B-50's fat belly was "Pete" Everest's aircraft-a sleek, needle-nosed little job with "Bell X2" painted on its sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Thicket Without Thorns | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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