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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, breaking under the strain, Giulia Orano begged the Roman press to help rescue her and her husband from "terror and desperation . . . decay, disorder and dirt." Only the Communist L'Unitd gave her space and grudging, lukewarm support. In all of Italy there are 300 leprosy victims confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Leper | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

There for the next four hours, too weak to raise their rifles, surrounded by several hundred Communist troops, 25 heroic U.S. infantrymen sit caked in blood and sweat and dust, and wait for help to come -wait unaware that all the while, back in the headquarters of the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

So fond is the shopper of gathering gossip along with the groceries that supermarket lounges are the coming thing. The Kroger chain (1,400 stores) is putting lounges in all its new supermarkets, with foam-rubber sofas, partitions to dampen noise, vending machines that serve drinks and food. To keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bread & Circuses | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Vary the Display. In the competition for the customer's dollar, the markets have become combination drug, dime and appliance stores as well as grocery merchants. Nearly 80% of all supermarkets sell air conditioners, and 76% have music departments. But the stores are having second thoughts about their standardized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bread & Circuses | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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