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...action in the Senate in the first weeks of the session. If no compromise can be reached with Bricker by then, the Administration has two fearsome choices: 1) tight-lipped acceptance of defeat, and all that it may mean in crippling the operation of U.S. foreign affairs; 2) a wide-open fight between wings of the Republican Party, with subsequent peril to the Administration's legislative program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: On Their Knees | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...game may well prove a wide-open, free scoring brawl, for each squad is offensively strong just where its opponent is most susceptible on defense...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Varsity Meets Columbia in New York Today for Ivy Opener | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...placating the old-line party organization men, who had resented the 1952 treatment of their vice chairman. Upton emphasized that he was accepting the appointment "without condition," but politicos guessed that he will not run next year, when the seat must be filled by election. That would leave a wide-open race for other candidates, probably including young Hugh Gregg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wound Closed, Race Opened | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...Francisco airport, the crowd waiting to greet General Mark Clark on his return from the Far East caught sight first of Mrs. Clark, who flashed a wide-open look of joy when she spied her daughter, Mrs. Gordon Costing. After welcoming ceremonies and a four-mile parade, the Clarks went on to New Orleans, where the general served as best man at the wedding of their only son, Major William Clark, 28, a thrice-wounded Korean veteran, and 25-year-old Fashion Model Audrey Loflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...moving toward midnight; a barroom brawl scene from an old Hoot Gibson silent; veteran Cowboy Gibson himself as a U.S. marshal whose blonde daughter (Laurie Anders) sings, dances, does a ventriloquist act and is equally expert at shooting, riding and jujitsu; guest appearances by such familiar faces from the wide-open spaces as Tex Ritter, Preston Foster, Jimmy Wakely, Buddy Baer, Johnny Mack Brown; a theme song called The Marshal's Daughter, renegade Indians, a mysterious masked rider, a cowboy quartet, dancing girls, rustlers on a rampage. Comedian-Producer Ken (Blackouts) Murray is intrepid enough to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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