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Political Career. Collaborated with the Japanese during the war, worked with the U.S. and the U.N. afterward, always striving to keep the Dutch out. In December 1949 the Dutch were finally out, and Sukarno was in as first President. Today his country is near bankruptcy and revolt-racked, but adoring masses hail "Bung Karno" (Brother Karno), worship him as liberator of the land. A neutralist in the cold war, he plays hot and cold with the Communists. In 1948 he drowned a Red revolt in blood, in 1956 tried his hardest to bring Reds into the Cabinet. Played host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: VISITOR FROM INDONESIA | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn't get in any more." After a quick change to street clothing, the Trumans went to Sunday services at 77-year-old St. Paul's American Episcopal Church. This week, tireless Tourist Truman was eager to be off for Venice, where, heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...When John S. Keefe, 27, was on the operating table at the Somerville (Mass.) Hospital last May for an emergency appendectomy, surgeons found his appendix all right, but there was a tumor in his right kidney, so they removed the kidney. Only afterward did they learn that Keefe had never had a left kidney; despite artificial-kidney aid and a wistfully hopeful transplant, he died. Now his widow, who gave birth to their son after her husband's death, is suing Dr. John A. Fraser and Dr. G. Stanley Miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...George W. Bengert, 57, became president of Norwich Pharmacal Co., succeeding Melvin C. Eaton, 65, son of a founder, who moved up to board chairman. Born in New Jersey and educated in the Middletown, N.Y. public schools, Bengert graduated from Columbia University in 1922, soon afterward joined Norwich as a research chemist, moved steadily up. Chemist Bengert's hobbies: driving a Thunderbird, working in the Boy Scouts and American Legion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain the occasional rigidity of the arm and leg muscles -previously noted by Sexologist Alfred Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). ¶ The increases in heart and breathing rates up to orgasm and the gradual decline afterward are remarkably closely synchronized in the partners. ¶ Electrocardiograms show a surprisingly large number of abnormal and skipped heartbeats, especially at orgasm. These aberrations were not repeated when the same individuals later engaged in strenuous exercise, such as running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Love | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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