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Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Mister Japan | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...boom was started by automatic pin-spotting equipment, introduced successfully for the first time by American Machine & Foundry Co. in 1952. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. followed with its automatic machines in 1956. Not only did the automated equipment eliminate the vagaries of pin boys, but they also made 24-hour-a-day bowling possible, caused alley owners to start big promotions, notably on TV shows, to keep the alleys busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...workers start bowling at Dallas Cotton Bowling Palace at 4 a.m. after the night shift ends.) New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom. Between them A.M.F. and Brunswick claim this year they will add some 25,000 new automatic pin-setting machines in bowling alleys across the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...with hokum in his manner and magic in his bones. Starlings? There's a way to get rid of them. Step a little closer and we'll talk terms. Mount Vernon stepped a little closer, saw the shimmering words on the stranger's golden tie pin. He was, by self-proclamation, THE BIRD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Scotcher | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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