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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chow Mein on the Mountain. Small, sallow, straggly-mustached, watery-eyed, Chen cuts a less-than-commanding figure. "I am 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weigh 124 Ibs. without my clothes," he says with dignity. Holding his temper under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Right-Hand Man | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Frenzy of Remorse. Away from his public, Puccini was a painfully shy man, given to periods of black depression accentuated by a stormy family life. He had met Elvira Gemignani when he was 26, lured her away from her husband (and Puccini's old school chum), had a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salute to Puccini | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Along with the audience, the sounds emitted by the nation's 3,779 AM and FM radio stations have changed too. In place of the nostalgic big names and expensive-talent dramatic shows, most U.S. stations blare forth a starless mishmash of hip music, skimmed news and honey-voiced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Battle for Ears | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Last week the young giant was almost ready to go home. But what to do? Dr. Shimizu would not let him join a stage troupe (too insecure). Yoshimitsu was getting both muscle-building and morale-building exercises to help him ignore the stares of passersby. Said he: "I hate to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Young Giant of Japan | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Beadle does not take an extreme position. "As a geneticist," he says, "I am prepared to say that fallout is biologically harmful and that we must therefore recognize a moral responsibility to humanity to reduce it to the lowest possible level." He is not sure "whether nuclear-weapons testing has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Secret of Life | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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