Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson would run against ten other candidates in the July 24 Democratic primary. His most formidable opponent was 60-year-old ex-Governor Coke ("Calculatin' Coke") Stevenson, a conservative states-rights man. Coke's supporters offered to put him into a plane, too, but Coke replied, after a hard bite on his pipestem: "No, thanks. I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...Perkins totted up his annual reckoning of what was played in concert halls during the season. For the second straight year, Chopin's Ballade in G Minor won the prize. In 225 piano recitals, it had been played, for better or worse, in more than one out of ten. Runner-up: Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata...
...conventional bars, but only as a concession to form. Said he: "I hate bars . . . [they] are like policemen's batons that strike down horribly, horribly. We must do away with them." He likes his melodies to "flow with no barriers, like the sea." He had composed his symphony ten years ago in the Swiss mountains, and likes to think of it as "glacial." But, he warned, "Do not try to understand it. Just feel...
...socialized medicine. To many Congressmen the key provision of the bill passed last week is the requirement that the U.S. representative on WHO's executive board must have "spent at least three years in active practice* as a physician or surgeon." The House wanted to make it ten years; that would have barred most of the experts who have spent their lives in the U.S. Public Health Service, in state health departments, in public health research...
After more than ten experimental years, the FCC last week approved commercial transmission of facsimile (TIME, Jan. 12). On July 15 any FM station that is ready for the job may start printing "fax" newspapers by radio. If it can be done satisfactorily in color (several experimenters think they have workable techniques), that will be all right with...