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With its warm-water ports on the Persian Gulf, Iran has been a target of Russian imperialism since the days of Peter the Great. Its attraction for the Communists in the Kremlin is even greater than it ever was for the Czars. The world's fourth largest exporter of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Reformer in Shako | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Cosmic rays have long been a fascinating and controversial subject among scientists. It is generally agreed that most low-speed cosmic rays are particles shot out of the sun, but that those with higher energy must come from somewhere else. The late Enrico Fermi thought they came from interstellar magnetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Way Out | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

E. B. White's thesis that we had better have all the panoply of arms, atomic and otherwise, rather than no arms at all is intriguing. Certainly if we were to awaken one morning to an unarmed world we'd probably have that walking-down-Hollywood-Boulevard-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

"The sight of several girls in gymnasium costume of bloomers and shirt waists taking part in a low hurdle race is not so common, even in these days, when exercise for women is generally approved, as to loose [sic] any of its novelty. And the girls do some good work...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Topsy-Like Growth of the Summer School | 7/14/1960 | See Source »

It said it wants to acquire 60% of the common stock.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Popular Stockholders | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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