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¶ In Centralia, Wash., reporters seized upon a theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Chicken-Licken & Radiolaria | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

The reaction was prompt-and hardly what Rooy and Peereboom expected. Wired the Foreign Press Association: "Freedom of the press is seriously threatened." When Rooy was asked if it was not the duty of a newspaper to check everything it published, he replied that the papers have a special duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Favor for the Queen | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Since then the South has become a land of promise. States are spending taxpayers' money to attract Northern capital. The welcome mat is out and the hand of friendship extended-but not by Senator Johnston." Then the paper took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Scalawag? | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

He likes to tell of the time he was invited to pinch-hit for a speaker at a Lincoln Day celebration and offered $250 and expenses. He wired back: "I don't know that much about Lincoln." Then, he says: 'T studied up a bit on Lincoln hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blessed Are the Debonair | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

In dropping the suit, McCarthy said his lawyers had been unable to find anyone who believed Benton's charges, and therefore Joe was unable to show damage. Within hours, came the inevitable. Walter H. Wheeler Jr. of Stamford, Conn., president of Pitney-Bowes Inc., and former president of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Law | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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