Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utter gloom that followed the vote, the Knowland forces freely predicted that there would be no civil rights legislation this session. Reason: the House, which passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures...
...gamble with violence as quickly as they learn to step out of the path of cars. Roaming the parks and roads, scavenging for pride, for some kind of self-identification and for excitement, the gangs (125 in all New York) too often base their conduct on moviedom's version of swaggering honor, red-blooded achievement. They call themselves Egyptian Kings, Dragons, Beacons, Imperial Knights, Fordham Baldies, Comanches...
...Told White House reporters that while he was not "too enthusiastic" about the narrowly defeated House version of his school-construction bill (TIME, Aug. 5), he had expressed his willingness to sign it and had "spoken up plenty of times for the principles" involved. Moreover, he would have another school bill ready for Congress next session...
Reasons for the attack were easy to find-such as they were. Days earlier, the Egyptian Kings had played stickball (a street version of baseball) with the Jesters. The Kings had lost, refused to pay off a 50?-a-man bet on the game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...
...Dead Jockey (MGM) offers a transposed version (from Paris to Madrid) of Irwin Shaw's story about an ex-Air Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario...