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...time the U.S. can seal off any area from observers if it chooses. In effect, Micronesia is a military reservation. The U.S. maintains powerful naval forces along its western front. A missile range has been set up in the empty spaces between islands farther east. Eniwetok and Bikini served as the site of nuclear tests. But as a self-professed champion of anticolonialism, the U.S. has always been rather embarrassed about its island wards...
...population in the last ten years-a pace that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union. It grew 79% between 1950 and 1960. Obviously, there is more to the story than sunshine and swimming pools, and it could not be pictured -in the traditional way, with bikini-clad girls beside their cabanas, or the old folks retired to the green park benches of St. Petersburg. So TIME assigned three photographers to tell the story of Florida in the age of Canaveral, frozen orange juice and artificially filled-in waterfront lots. Photographers Ormond Gigli and Jim Langley began...
...bright Sunday morning, and the beach was thronged with sun-roasters, surf-coasters, bikini-oglers and juvenile sand-throwers. Suddenly a wild-looking man garbed like an Old Testament prophet loped across the sand and hurled himself into the waves. Loungers looked up, transistor-radio earplugs popped out of ears. Again and again the man plunged into the sea, and a crowd began to gather. Before people knew what had happened, they were listening to the dripping prophet tell the story of Naaman the leper, who threw himself seven times into the River Jordan and was miraculously healed...
...through North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist...
...singers off in a frenzy of denial, confession and recrimination: I Don't Talk Too Much, I Talk Too Much, Who Talks Too Much? The craze has even provided an answer to what happened to the girl who lost the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Her name, according to 14-year-old Songstress Jeri Lynne Eraser, was Begonia, and out there in the water Poor Begonia Caught Pneumonia...