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...afternoon of May 16, 1955, according to L. (for Leonard) Ewing Scott, his wife Evelyn sent him to a drugstore to buy her some tooth powder. When he got back to their $75,000 house in west Los Angeles' expensive Bel Air section, she had vanished, leaving behind no note, no indication of where she had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Lady Vanishes | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion from Algeria | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Algerian nationalists jumped to exploit France's internal crisis. In a show of impudent strength, they staged a coordinated attack on Sidi-bel-Abbes, the storied home of the Foreign Legion itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Grenades & Gloves | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...black car, slipped a leather-strapped machine gun from his shoulder, and me thodically began pumping bullets into the customers. On Avenue Kleber, an elegantly dressed man unlimbered a machine gun and raked customers and passers-by on the terrace of the Cafe de Palmarium. Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Grenades & Gloves | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Price Class. Ford Fairlane 500 "6," 22.2534 m.p.g., 52.5181 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "8," 21.2636 m.p.g., 49-4378 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air "6," 21.4948 m.p.g., 49.0080 t.m.p.g.; Rambler Rebel "8," 21.6214 m.p.g., 47.8914 t.m.p.g.; Ford Fairlane 500 "8," 19.1567 m-p-g-, 45-4013 t.m.p.g...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Clean Sweep for Chrysler | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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