Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term U.S. Senator Millard Tydings, 66, beat Perennial Candidate George Mahoney by 6,000 votes and won the right to seek revenge on John Marshall Butler, who had toppled him from the Senate in 1950. But Tydings was laid low by a serious attack of shingles, and had to withdraw from the race (TIME, Aug. 27). Gathered last week to select a new candidate, the Democratic State Central Committee turned aside a bid by Tydings' wife Eleanor, 52, and chose the man her husband had defeated in the primary-Pavement Contractor Mahoney...
...narrow-mindedness" that barred their children from the universities. Hemmed the East Berlin weekly Sonntag: "Once in a while professors, doctors, artists, or engineers complain that their children are not, without exception, enrolled in the universities . . . But one should not hesitate to say that some children of our intelligentsia withdraw themselves from their social duties ... It is up to the intelligentsia to educate its offspring towards our most important state tasks, thus bringing the wishes of the individual into consonance with a social demand...
...shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware that Kennedy had voted against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports, barked right back: "What about the farm vote?" There were angry stirrings in the Tennessee delegation, and Albert Gore grabbed a microphone to withdraw in favor of Kefauver...
Israelis demanded that they withdraw, two Canadian members of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, Major George Flint and Major Marcel Breault, went forward to investigate. Both were injured when they touched off an anti-personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death...
Cubi is within striking distance of most of Eastern Asia, would prove an invaluable defense anchor should the U.S. ever be forced to withdraw from Japan and Okinawa. Said Admiral Arthur W. Radford, who first suggested the Cubi base in 1948 and was on hand to dedicate it: "What we do is directed against no nation and no peoples-only against aggression." Replied President Ramon Magsaysay: "Cubi is one more proof that...