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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Platoon 399, Lieut. William D. Conroy, 26, strode four days later into the platoon barracks, found Recruit Porter and slugged him. Last week at Parris Island, in the same courtroom where Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon had stood trial for the death march into the boondocks (TIME, July 30; Aug. 13), another court-martial convened. Lieut. Conroy, a regular officer, pleaded guilty to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. After deliberating 50 minutes, a general court ordered him dismissed from the service...
...Aug. 29, 1952 a girl with a big hole between her auricles received standard anesthesia, was then put in a 6-ft. kitchen-type freezer until her body temperature dropped to 75°. The patient's circulation was slowed at first, then stopped by clamps. Bailey slit open the auricle, put a patch over the hole and closed the heart, with two minutes to spare against his eight-minute limit. But because of air trapped in the heart, the patient died. History's first truly open-heart operation in a dry field looked like a failure...
WHEN Premier Ben-Gurion appeared on TIME'S cover on Aug. 16, 1948, it was as the head of the newly created state of Israel, victorious in battle over the Arab armies but facing all the uncertainties of a predictably difficult future. On Jan. 16, 1956 Ben-Gurion was on TIME'S cover again, back from a brief retirement to lead his nation at another moment of crisis, "a headlong man in a hurry," "a prophet who packs a pistol." This week, as David Ben-Gurion stood at the center of the diplomatic negotiations over the Middle East...
DUTY-FREE AIRPORT will open for intercontinental passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol field, following the profitable pattern of Europe's first duty-free air terminal at Shannon (TIME, Aug. 27). Dutch port next month will start selling tax-free liquor, tobacco and candy, later add cameras, watches, perfume...
...months of legal wrangling between the Swedish American and Italian lines over the responsibility for the An drea Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...