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...Republicans' two-man advance patrol, wearing pin-stripe suits and noncommittal smiles, moved quietly into Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance Patrol | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Sailing championships, it should be noted, are run on a two-division, double round robin basis. Thus Hoppin and Nathanson would each race 16 times. As each two-man racing dinghy differs slightly in performance from its twins, every college team--eight in all--received a chance to sail every boat in its division. Final scores are figured on a point-total basis, scores depending on the order of finish in each race...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...used to the altitude and the cold when three of them came down with severe pains and fever, perhaps from food poisoning. Nevertheless, successive camps were established at 15,200 ft., at 16,100 and, though the sick men were still wobbly, at 18,800. Finally, from a two-man camp at 20,600 ft., Dave

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal in the Sky | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...resemblance between the Democratic and Republican pre-convention campaigns of 1952 is purely coincidental and probably misleading. The G.O.P. is staging a two-man fight for delegates with the lines very sharply drawn and seven-eighths of the delegates committed. Because this fight has attracted more public attention, there is a tendency to regard the Democratic contest as the same kind of a race and to overemphasize the count of delegates in that party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Wait & See | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...places only after it found a glamorous front man: Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, 46, who bears one of Italy's most illustrious names (Borgheses have been popes, cardinals and generals). Prince Junio is one of the few authentic Italian heroes of World War II. He commanded the two-man submarines that crept into Alexandria Harbor one dark December night in 1941, blowing up H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and H.M.S. Valiant and for a time paralyzing the British in the Mediterranean. When the beaten Mussolini fled to north Italy and founded his short-lived Fascist republic, Borghese went along, served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Portrait of a Party | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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