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Slightly pessimistic about the long-rung chances of stopping the Communists from taking over the rest of Europe and Asia without a world war, those polled overwhelmingly favored fighting the Russians as a last resort. But, Stouffer said, "the American people are not trigger-happy. They want to avoid war if possible." Sixty-one percent still wanted the U.S. to try to talk things over with Russia to settle the problem...
...Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more and more of a Christian message for the televiewers of 80 stations. They help many religious causes, such as Billy Graham's evangelizing of Britain last spring. Dale's God-centered writings...
...letters to God dealing with the minutiae of the half-enchanted, half-commercial public-private life personifying an American folk myth-the Cowboy. The six children have to be hustled off to school, the washing machine must be fixed, travel is an endless series of personal appearances, interviews, awards. Trigger walks four flights upstairs and shakes a bridle-full of daffodils over the ailing Roy to cheer him. And God is always there...
Tony married handsome Shauna ("Miss Utah State") Wood, quit the University of Cincinnati, and began playing harder than ever. But turning tennis into a business did not come easy. Bothered by blisters and hampered by a hair-trigger temper. Tony won only one major title (French singles) all last year. Only as a member of the successful U.S. Davis Cup team (TIME, Jan. 10) did he come up to his old form. Time was running out: another year as an also-ran and Tony might have to pick a new profession...
...rebels were a desperate crew: 1) Walter Harold Balben, 38, the leader, a husky, trigger-tense gunman and ex-paratrooper, serving sentences of 35 to 49 years, 2) Teddy Green (né Georgacopolis), 39, a notorious, publicity-conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...