First of Many (Jan. 29): The 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor divorces Nick Hilton. She will marry British actor Michael Wilding less than a year after her divorce is finalized.

Term Limits (Feb. 26): The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution takes effect. It says that no person may be elected to the presidency for more than two terms.

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Extended Contract (March 18): NBC signs Milton Berle to a 30-year contract, said to be the TV industry's longest.

Truman vs. MacArthur (April 11): President Truman fires Gen. Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of Allied forces in the Pacific and orders him to return home in the midst of the Korean War. The Chicago Tribune and a host of other newspapers demand the impeachment and conviction of the president, calling him "unfit, morally and mentally, for his high office." Truman also is booed in public and hanged in effigy for his actions against MacArthur, a hero to many Americans.

In Living Color (June 25): CBS airs the first commercial color broadcast. Unfortunately, no color TVs are owned by the public, and the only people who see the broadcast in color are CBS technicians watching on monitors.

Attacking Bias (July 9): The NAACP says that the "Amos and Andy" television show depicts blacks as "amoral, semiliterates, lazy, stupid, dishonest and scheming."

Setting Course (Nov. 1): Publisher John H. Johnson launches Jet magazine, a news weekly tailored to the interests of African-American readers.

Cutting Cavities (Nov. 30): The American Medical Association approves treatment of drinking water with fluorides to reduce tooth decay.

Fashion Sense: Gloves are still de rigeur, but nylon gloves are suggested as a spring and summer alternative to cotton. The cinched waist is still popular -- at a time when such Hollywood favorites as Elizabeth Taylor boast 19-inch waistlines -- but designer Balmain electrifies the fashion world with a waistless dress in his fall 1951 collection. With a nod to Hollywood's sweater girls, the 1951 Sears catalog offers 22 kinds of bust pads -- popularly called falsies. And in a harbinger of styles to come, Life magazine features a model in a full felt skirt with a poodle applique.