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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulton, Tenn. This was a fresh challenge to Eisenhower's resolve to keep government out of business if private industry could do the job as well. Dodge hired Adolphe H. Wenzell, vice president of the First Boston Corp. (investment bankers), to suggest ways of getting the plant built without tapping the budget. The now celebrated Dixon-Yates contract (TIME, Aug. 2, 1954 et seq.) was the result...
...Amman a crowd of 1,000 stoned and burned the U.S. Point Four office. Twice they stormed the Philadelphia Hotel, where several U.S. families had taken refuge, but they were driven back from the lobby. They also fired a British bank and-apparently because it had been built with U.S. Point Four funds-the government's new Department of Health Building. At Ajlun, 30 miles to the north, the hero was Baptist Missionary Lloyd Lovegren of Birmingham, Ala., who talked a mob that had already burned two mission buildings out of putting his hospital to the match. The doctor...
...week's end the Legion regained control. They rounded up groups of rioters who had built roadblocks and had scattered rocks on the highways, and made them clear the roads. "We not only make them pick up rocks," said a British brigadier, "but make them carry the rocks half a mile. It works wonders." Heavy government censorship was lifted, and King Hussein thanked the Legion in a broadcast for restoring order, adding: "During the crisis we have identified faces and intentions which do not have the good of the country at heart." First reports said 18 had been killed...
...Worst People on Earth." The Aucas have been described by one scientist as "the worst people on earth." Relatively well-built and lightskinned, they wear little except bright body paint, with a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention...
...world's longest airline. Frenchmen could claim with pride that it is also one of the world's most modern. Last week France's international airline was betting some $143 million on a new jet fleet, the biggest outside the U.S. On order were twelve French-built twin-jet Caravelle transports for European runs, plus ten U.S. Boeing 707 intercontinental jet liners slated for 1959 service on the most competitive of all air routes, the rich North Atlantic...