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...character of the testimony, but the fact that it is compelled ... I can assure you that the Fifth Amendment has been too dearly won to be sold out to the pack of political hacks and people such as Attorney Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...reached 157 m.p.h. Just before the wheels left the ground, Fifield pulled the release handle. The ejection seat shot into the air. Fifty feet up, he separated from the seat and kept rising. When he reached 80 ft., two small parachutes pulled a big parachute out of its pack. It opened just in time, landing Fifield gently. The whole sequence, from ejection to landing, took six seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Briton Ejected | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...their first 24, for a 9½-game lead. By June 11 they had gained another game; after that, their lead never dropped below ten. Even during a midseason slump (they lost twelve out of 18 in August), the margin grew because the rest of the pack, snarling and snapping at themselves, knocked each other off to push the Dodger lead to an enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September Habit | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...were not bucking merely the whim of Korea's stubborn, proud old President Syngman Rhee. They were bucking a tide of nationalism that has swept through Asia. In much of the non-Communist East, many governments are putting pressure on employees of U.S. and other foreign companies to pack up and go back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Americans Go Home | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Despite such defects, the book is highly useful. It will suggest to the reader that the language of Soviet bureaucracy is simply the herd noise of a pack of exceedingly dull and humorless rogues. It also shows that international Communism has created a linguistic apparatus for a general attack on the whole logical structure of the Western mind-an attack which does not cease when Moscow talks peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pidgin for Progressives | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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