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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Congressman Halleck (R., Ind.) demonstrates what can be done by a man with conviction and know-how in spite of the odds. Let's get behind the President and insist upon fiscal responsibility by our national legislators.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Abbot Soong headed the Tien Chen Cloister in Shanghai. He died at the age of 62 in 1942. What makes Abbot Soong unique that he predicted, a year before his death, not only the time of his death but the fact that his body would not decompose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

THE great human stories of Washington.'' mused the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James Reston last week, "are beyond the scope of daily journalism." He was rejecting on the "rough time" that daily journalism had in trying to explain why the Senate refused to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Talent for Controversy. Sometime Wall Street banker, longtime member (1946-50) and chairman (1953-58) of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss made a lot of enemies during his AEC years in the controversies that swirled about him: his winning fight to get an H-bomb program started, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Sad Episode | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

And always there is Rome itself, giving shape and glory to what might otherwise be a formless fantasy. When the gates of the city finally close behind Jimmy as on a condemned playground, the picaresque hero carries with him two bittersweet truths: youth is short and Rome is eternal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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