Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Does Mr. Hoover think that Christ gave John a "Revolution"? JOAN HUGHES Canton, Ohio Freedom on Fiji SIR: MOHAMMED TORAH's SNEER ABOUT FIJI AS WHITE MAN'S PARADISE, BLACK MAN'S HELL [TIME, Sept. 22] is RIDICULOUS. IN FIJI NEA LY 35O,OOO PEOPLE OF SEVERAL RACES LIVE AMICABLY. STANDARDS OF LIVING ARE HIGH...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...
...four years of hunting, Dogcatcher McGowen had come to think of Maverick as something special-a symbol of sorts. "He kind of got under my skin," he said. Last month, when McGowen got orders to shoot the dog, he refused: "Get somebody else." Then McGowen planned his biggest push. One morning two police cars and three of McGowen's cars cruised the tightly netted area. Neighbors took up positions near by. One of McGowen's men, armed with an air rifle loaded with a nicotine-tipped needle, climbed to the rooftop near the spot where Maverick liked...
...destructive" criticism but hesitates to act too precipitately, gave Marek Hlasko a passport to visit Western Europe. In Paris he was interviewed by the weekly L'Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune of a man in a totalitarian country is the feeling, a feeling that never leaves him, of the grotesqueness and ridiculousness...
...Arkansas cow baron, slouched into Dallas for the Texas State Fair, broadcast the joys of life as a simple farmer. "I never," he drawled, "want to go back to the city." Winnie, amiably noncommittal about his brother's try for New York Governor ("Most of my Democratic friends think Nelson has a real chance"), slyly dashed, for the time being, any stray ideas that he too might have political hankerings: "The state constitution requires that a man be a resident of Arkansas for seven years before he is eligible to run for Governor. I've only lived there...