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In Florida, where the multimillion-dollar citrus industry is one of the state's biggest, that is tantamount to coming out for frost. Chairman J. R. Graves of the Florida Citrus Commission accused Tropicana of "premeditated and willful violation of the citrus code" (which prohibits producers from adding anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Juicy Scandal | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Refugees. In many respects the filibuster (or "sustained educational campaign," as one Southerner put it) was as hollow as Southern hopes; civil rights legislation-whether it carries the imprint of the Administration, or Northern Democrats or both-is inevitable in this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Filibuster | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

Lithe and energetic, crewcut, always hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mr. Cancer Research | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

On the first page of this massive Civil War novel, Hero John Bottomley is up before dawn to fight a duel with villainous Ules Monckton. But he does not reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return to Pompey's Head | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Passion for Nature. In Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pan Pipes by the Thames | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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