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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arizona: In the campaign most like a personal grudge fight, Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland, 64, runs a fifty-fifty chance of getting revenge upon dashing, right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater, 49 (TIME, Sept. 29), who upset Senator McFarland in 1952 and thus ended his career as Senate majority leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: KEY SENATE RACES | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

When the axe of censorship falls upon a college campus, it generally deals the deathblow to a vital means of free expression. Student opinion, though aroused, is often helpless in the face of absolute University rule, and a crusade for academic freedom tends to be waged within the confines of a paper...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Creeping Silence | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...have a scholarship which dates back to the 17th century and you try to change the use of the funds, you have a nearly impossible legal task." He observed that if scholarships are made less desirable, the yearly $1 million earmarked for scholarships that the Financial Office depends upon might easily be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris' Plan For Finances Under Attack | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...only walked a few paces when I stumbled upon an M.P. sitting on a sailor who had passed out in front of the Boston Public Library. The world surged into my stomach and I suddenly saw Tides of Passion as it really was. For $1.50 I had escaped for three full hours (there were several short subjects). Escape, pure and simple. At fifty cents an hour, what more could...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Tides of Passion | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...carry out our mission of anti-Communist and national survival, we depend upon political more than military means," he said in a message to a Youth Corps rally...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Western UN Resolution Requests Big Three to End Nuclear Tests; Chiang Calls for Mainland Return | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

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