Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court's swerve into a new, liberal direction in dealing with cases bearing on the rights of individuals v. government (TIME, July I) last week brought swift executive, legislative and judicial reaction. Items: ¶ Heavily underscoring President Eisenhower's approval, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell hurried before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, urged legislation to prevent a "serious miscarriage of justice" arising from the Supreme Court's Jencks decision, which required pertinent FBI files to be turned over directly to defendants in criminal cases. One Rhode Island court, said Brownell, might well free four convicted kidnapers...
...almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby Street, Mickey Cochrane and Al Lopez, few major-league catchers-turned-manager have matched the swift success of George Robert Tebbetts...
Protests & Denials. Reaction was swift and conflicting. Many steelmen had plugged for a boost ranging from last year's $8.50 a ton to $10 or more, were disappointed at the rate set by the industry leader. Said Avery C. Adams, president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.: "The announced price increase is grossly inadequate in so far as covering our total anticipated cost increases is concerned." But the loudest protests came from those who thought the increase was too great-even though many had feared it would be even greater. House Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma called...
Early morning mist had slicked the 8,366-mile road course and added to the possibilities of bloodshed, but in the end there were only a few crashes and minor injuries, and the high speeds killed only the chances of the favored Italian entries. The sleek, swift Ferraris and Maseratis were fast enough to set records all week long in practice runs, but they were not sturdy enough to run so fast so long. In the race itself, the Italians screeched in and out of the pits, getting their cars patched up like overage family jalopies, while five D-type...
Died. James Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey, 53, saxophonist-bandleader, brother of Trombonist Tommy (who accidentally choked to death in his sleep last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death...