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...McDonnell's twinjet, supersonic Voodoo (TIME, Dec. 6), was de signed as a bomber escort, but tests were a surprise, showed that the Voodoo was an excellent all-round fighter. Production of the F101 will be greatly increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: New Defensive Team | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Movie fans with fading memories of a freckle-faced little girl got a jolt when onetime Cinemoppet Margaret {Journey for Margaret} O'Brien, 18, winner of a special 1944 Academy Award (as the year's best all-round child actress), marched up and got a diploma from Los Angeles' University High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Great Profile, slapped a $55,-750 breach-of-contract suit on him for acting up while making a string of movies in England. The charges, similar to those made against Junior last August by a Connecticut summer theater: uncouth public squabbles with his wife Cara, insults to other actors, all-round misbehavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...knife, one of the best all-round weapons of its sort ever invented (useful for any chore from spreading butter to disemboweling enemies, also good for throwing), is still a topic of controversy among experts on such hardware. The question: Was it devised by obscure Frontiersman Rezin P. Bowie or by his famed brother, heroic Colonel James Bowie, who died in the siege of the Alamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...month before their offer to settle the Austrian problem, they fired Hungary's Premier Imre Nagy, a "new course" man (TIME, March 21), and began an all-round tightening up of party and government discipline. Into the premiership last week went 40-year-old Andras Hegedus, who at 24 broke with his well-to-do farmer parents over his Communism and went off to Moscow. After a long talk with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, he became

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Borderland to Freedom | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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