Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Adlai Stevenson climbed into his state-owned, two-engine Beechcraft last week, and flew off to the Wisconsin north woods for three days of fishing and his first holiday since he won the Democratic nomination. He picked a Hollywood version of a hunting lodge on the 138-acre country estate of an old friend, Clark W. Finnerud, a Chicago dermatologist...
...executive who was called into the Army on a salary of $50 a month. How could he pay his 1941 income taxes? Ruml proposed that everyone get out of debt to the Government by moving over to a pay-as-you-go basis. In 1943, Congress passed an amended version of the Ruml plan, setting up the present withholding-tax system. Now nobody, but hardly anybody, is in debt to Uncle Sam-though Uncle Sam is still in debt...
...pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger is to have the desired effect in Krasnoyarsk or anywhere else. There is evidence that since...
...Counter-intelligence Corps (which Thorpe himself helped organize in the Pacific) descended on his home town of Westerly, R.I., a small community where gossip spreads fast. The agents questioned Thorpe's neighbors and friends about his loyalty. The agents based the questions on the Worker's version of Thorpe's speech. Instead of standing his ground, Thorpe withdrew as a candidate for fear he would embarrass his party. Last week the Army announced there was no question of Thorpe's loyalty and wrote to him apologizing for "the unfortunate inconvenience and embarrassment." But by that time...
...Story of Robin Hood. Flavorful version of the old legend, with Richard Todd fighting for king, country and fair Maid Marian (TIME, June...