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Died. Dr. Khan Sahib, 76, founder and leader of Pakistan's ruling Republican Party, onetime (1955-57) Chief Minister of the province of West Pakistan, a physician who became a member of the Indian National Congress, worked with Nehru and Gandhi for Indian independence; of three bayonet wounds delivered by an assassin; in Lahore, Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Andrew Baczek was an apprentice sword swallower (for a change of diet he sometimes ate fire, too) with a few months' experience. One day, at Chicago's Riverview Amusement Park, he overate. "I'd already swallowed that bayonet five times that day," he recalled later. "You're only supposed to do it a few times a week." At any rate, when he tried to swallow that bayonet, almost a foot of it slipped down all right and then it stuck. The crowd began to titter and Andy panicked. Instead of pulling the bayonet out and starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Fire & Sword | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...brook that runs into the Black Sea, two Turkish infantrymen stood guard this week. Their posture was rigidly prescribed: each had one foot on the bridge and one foot on Turkish soil, one hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...slowly moving stream. V. M. Chernov came down from the platform, rolling his papers into a cylinder. We walked off to the coat racks together. The sentries did not stop anyone, but I heard a remark aimed at Chernov: "There's someone for the point of a bayonet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED IN RUSSIA | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...simplest countermeasure, says Klass, is radio jamming that drowns out enemy radar or communications by brute electronic force. This sort of thing is now considered as crude as bayonet fighting. The modern objective is to blind the enemy, make him see double or lead him astray, preferably without letting him know that anything is amiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Counter-measures | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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