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Families jammed the galleries to watch the swearing in of the new House (258 Democrats, 176 Republicans and one vacancy) and of 40 new and re-elected members of the Senate. Half a dozen Congressmen had their children with them on the floor, and one little boy proudly raised his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: New & Nice | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Original Subscribers. Tidende stands in deeper debt to the Danish national character than to Berling family pride. It has never been a great paper, although consistently a good one. Created by royal dispensation, it remained stubbornly loyal to the throne, even after 1904, when the government began printing a newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Great Dane | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Admiral Anderson has a worthy predecessor in his war on profanity, one who was equally adamant about "that unmeaning and abominable custom, swearing." His name was George Washington.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1962 | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Behind the bolted doors of a headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, 150 youths snapped to attention, clicked their heels and gave a Nazi-style straight-arm salute. At a command, three high school boys entered the room. The neophytes chorused an oath, swearing to defend with their lives "the permanent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Resurrecting the Swastika | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Putting On the Squeeze | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

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