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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRAGMENTING land into small holdings clashes head on with the trend toward efficient, big-scale farming with machinery. Essential for modern grain cultivation, big-scale farming is also useful in sugar; Puerto Rico tried and let die a 500-acre limit on sugar farms. By turning his agrarian reform against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: THE LONG, SAD HISTORY OF LAND REFORM | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Is Canada about to bow out as a full partner in manning NATO's European shield? Until a few months ago, any such notion was inconceivable. Yet in the letdown after Ottawa's cancellation of the all-Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The $400 Million Question | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

In Britain, Virginia-born Lady Astor turned So, practiced some golf shots, fired some verbal salvos to prove that her mind and tongue are keen as ever. On British politics: "I advise Tories to vote Tory. Socialism won't work unless you love your neighbors. I find that so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

British Author Aldous (Brave New World Revisited) Huxley, 64, journeyed from his California home to Manhattan, collected $1,000 and a medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "having done the best work of our time in . . . the novel of ideas." In his acceptance speech Huxley modestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

New safety regulations now require roll-bars on every car, flameproof coveralls for every driver. Still, two drivers have died in practice runs this month. Says 45-year-old Fred Agabashian, longtime 500 driver who quit racing last year: "You don't reach retirement age in one of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The 500 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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