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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transaction was unknown to the thousands who decorated both banks and it probably didn't matter much. Amused by the bands and humor magazines of two colleges and warmed by a sun that sent the temperature to the mid-60s, the crowd had little trouble waiting out the hour-long postponement...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: 12,000 Frolic; Crimson Wins Shell | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...Grand Rapids, Mich, draft board suspended operations in protest. One member, Robert J. Yonkman, Air Force major in World War II, said: "The Government wants to ... give tests to disclose whether a man is dumb enough to bear arms. Maybe they should put on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: 'I couldn't pass the aptitude test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Up In Arms | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...unknown marauder walked into an empty fourth floor Winthrop room over the weekend, and walked out with a new spring outfit and spending money, the victims reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Thief Raids Winthrop; Bathes, Steals Clothes and Money | 4/11/1951 | See Source »

...addressed the National Press Club. Later in the week he received a rousing ovation when he spoke to the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited Mount Vernon, laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and attended another formal dinner given by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Red Carpet | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Voyage with Sabotage. At Le Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Education at Sea | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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