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...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a prescription last week for the general practitioners who keep Britain's socialized National Health Service running: a 5% increase in their pay. The doctors scoffed at it as merely soothing syrup, incapable of curing their deep-seated financial ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Nationalized Doctors | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Now a Word From Our Sponsor | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...unfair business practices cut the number of franchised dealers in the country, cars will not be serviced properly, and accident rates will soar. Said Executive Vice President Frederick J. Bell, a retired rear admiral who also serves N.A.D.A. as a public-relations expert: "We do not want soothing syrup. We want action, and we are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Help for Dealers | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr, longtime champion of the gas producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Healing Hand | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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