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...dangerous and unholy [organizations] unworthy to be called American ... a kind of uptown Ku Klux Klan." In the middle of his speech, Carter was interrupted by the wailing of sirens and the arrival at the auditorium of fire engines, police squad cars, a Navy shore-patrol wagon and two ambulances, all summoned by false alarms to break up the meeting. Cracked Carter: "The only thing missing was the Coast Guard." But back in Greenville his opposition to the extremist Citizen's Councils produced more serious results. The state government, which had drawn up a contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hot Middle | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Self-lncrimination. In Kitchener, Ont., City Hall Employee Edward Beitz pleaded with passersby for an hour before someone finally released him from a parked police patrol wagon into which he had accidentally locked himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

There is always an officer--either on foot or in the force's familiar blue station wagon-ready to respond to the flashing red emergency lights scattered around the University. The blinking might signify that a locked-out student needs to get into his rooms, or that there is a fire in Adams House. But since serious disturbances are unusual, the duties of the Yard cops in addition to patrol, are limited to traffic matters (center, right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experienced Subtlety | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

...they want them to act like overalls." While Claire McCardell and other top designers lead the way, the U.S. fashion industry is now busy turning out garments to keep up with the fast modern pace-dresses that are as at home in the front seat of a station wagon as in the back seat of a Rolls, as comfortable in the vestibule of a motel as in the lobby of the Waldorf, as fitting for work in the office as for cocktails and dinner with the boss. Most of all, they must be practical. Sports clothes must swing as easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The American Look | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...hundred and fifty "horses," first banished from England to Belgium but now all hoof-printed for the U.S., ran into rough weather yesterday and couldn't land at East Boston for either the opening of suffolk Downs or the annual Paul Revere milk-wagon mush. All will be doped up for this afternoon's fast track, however, and ace CRIMSON handicapper Clocker Spanielle, who netted $5 on his doping for last year's opener, prophesies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanielle Spots Dogged Horses | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

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