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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Love That Warmth | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Senator John Kennedy, Massachusetts urbanite who voted against rigid price props in 1956, preceded Eisenhower at Cedar Rapids' corn-picking contest with a stemwinding attack upon the author of flexible props, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "His objective may be to get the government out of the farming business, but the farmers' objective apparently is to get Mr. Benson out of the governing business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Love That Warmth | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...night last week police came upon Oopa in the sleepy streets of Papeete, Tahiti's capital. In his hand, they said, was a Molotov cocktail. With him were 50 henchmen, and, in a city largely built of wood, all were carrying either firearms or firebombs. In a raid on Oopa's home, police rounded up more henchmen, found more bombs. At week's end Pouvanaa Oopa was behind bars, and no longer functioning as Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tahiti's Troubles | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...communique issued at Taipei on the Dulles-Chiang conference contained a public renunciation of the use of force by Nationalist China to return to the mainland. It said the Nationalists would rely upon peaceful means to carry out their "sacred mission" of freeing China's 600 million people from Communist rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dulles, Chiang Agree Not to Use Force Against China Mainland; De Gaulle Calls for Cease-Fire | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

...Guard band played the funeral dirge, a large Red banner was nailed upon the wall with the letters in gold, "The leaders die, but the cause lives...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: John Reed: The Eternal Cheerleader | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

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