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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final burst of legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Men of Destiny | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...techniques of mass production unleashed by the Americans 40 years ago prom ise comfort for all-and the promise is an honest one, technically redeemable. This promise runs through the world (especially through Asia) like a Pied Piper, leading men to drop ancient ways of life and follow it. But the American is not on the ground to organize the energy released by this promise. Neither hope of profit nor love of domination takes the American to the spot. He is content to be a Pied Piper on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GIANT IN A SNARE | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...enemy pushed a few spearheads beyond fallen Seoul, but failed to follow them up in force. Nevertheless, the retreating Allies lost no time in evacuating Suwon and putting its airfield to the torch. Next, they abandoned Osan (where the first U.S. units in Korea began their delaying action last summer). The road from there to Taejon, scene of last summer's most tragic battle, was clogged with refugees. And 50 miles to the east, a flanking threat was developing at Wonju, an important rail and road center which lies in rugged uplands like those around the Changjin reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Scorched-Earth Retreat | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

After the game, the film will be edited until the only scenes left will show successful Harvard shots. "The camera-man has been instructed to follow the ball in its path through the air," says Bramhall. "It is very important that the ball be shown going into the basket...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Quintet Tries Psychological Booster | 1/12/1951 | See Source »

...Ninette de Valois, is more interesting because it is at least a successful attempt to evoke atmosphere and, more important emotion. Rex Whistler's scenery and costumes are based on Hogarth's famous series of etchings, and the entire ballet is conceived in this spirit. In six scenes we follow the downfall of the young Bake, splendidly danced by Alexander Grant. Especially incisive and brilliant were Brian Shaw, as the Rake's Dancing Master, and Ray Powell, as "The Gentleman with a Rope," an inmate of a London madhouse...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Sadler's Wells | 1/12/1951 | See Source »

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