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...Knight county chairmen has been gathering steam. These men are determined either to take over the state committee, or to cripple it by cutting off the money they raise for it. To such moves, some Warrenites respond by joining the Nixon-Knight coalition; others, like National Committeewoman Marjorie Benedict, threaten to make a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Under New Management | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...troops of the Eighteenth Red Army line the vital Chumbi Valley between Bhutan and Sikkim. They are quartered in twelve barracks, and up to 50 new barracks are being constructed. To the west, Chinese garrisons at Gartok, trade center of western Tibet, and six other strategic locations threaten the Indians in Kashmir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle for the Himalayas | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Tabor dominated the game so thoroughly that the Yardlings did not threaten to score until late in the fourth quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '57 'B' Football Team Loses to Tabor, 16-6 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

While the varsity doesn't figure to threaten the leaders, it should finish better than last year's 15th place finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Will Close Season in IC4A Meet Today | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Sidewalk Cafe was painted in 1888 at Aries, in the south of France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Night & Day | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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