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Naguib gave himself six months of supreme powers and personally took over jobs that would tax three ordinary men: Premier, defense minister, chief of staff. Twenty hours a day, seven days a week he labored. Once, at a cornerstone-laying ceremony, he blurted out: "Believe me, I am tired and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

More than 4,000 contracting firms in 27 states had a hand in supplying materials and equipment for Big Steel's new plant; 10,000 construction workers labored on the 3,900-acre site. The Fairless Works, part of the steel industry's more than $3 billion post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Firing Up | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

"Nobody was good enough for him," cried the landlady bitterly, after the cops labored up the stairs of her sleazy Queens, N.Y. rooming house to view the body of Rodger P. Stewart, 70, dead of natural causes. "Wouldn't let me in his room. He was sitting in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Old Sport | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Premier of Victory. Orlando was born in Sicily a year before the U.S. Civil War began. His father, a landed gentleman of Palermo, delayed venturing out to register his son's birth on May 19, 1860, for fear of Garibaldi's 1,000 patriots who had just stormed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Last of the Big Four | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

The Marines sprayed the summit with automatic-carbine fire. Chinese on the ridge replied with burp guns. Amid the brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Sunday Punch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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