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While the Kennedys fought for their right to informality in their private lives, they went through their public diplomatic paces last week with the same zesty grace. At the first big White House wingding of the season, the President and First Lady greeted ambassadors and their wives as they sipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Public Paces | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Politicians learned so much about theo ries of morality and students so much about practical politics in his course that Father Canavan plans to continue it as a lecture series. Even though he had to listen to a politician attack newspapers for supporting political candidates who buy full-page ads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Theory & Practice | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

It was a week to gladden the hardest-hearted politician; from coast to coast the trombones blasted out, the bunting rippled, the political speakers roared. Thousands of chickens made the supreme sacrifice, turned up as patties and croquettes on thousands of tables at Lincoln Day dinners and Democratic rallies. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Poetry & Potshots | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Some 50,000 U.S. citizens, attending 66 celebrations across the nation (top tariff: $100 a plate), paid high tribute to Harry Truman on his 75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Out at the James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The New Pictures | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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