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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARTHUR C. WARD Fort Bragg, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...spreading misery in Calcutta and all West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August 20 as the trysting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Force Against Reds | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...trapping Disneyland as a model, showmen have started similar amusement parks in a dozen cities from Denver to Caracas, Venezuela. The wonder is that no one has staked out the biggest tourist mecca of them all: New York. Last week that sure thing was covered as well. Texas Engineer C. (for nothing) V. (for nothing) Wood, who already has five parks abuilding around the U.S. (TIME, June 29), announced a $65 .million Freedomland that will present two centuries of American history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx and shaped like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Ars Gratis | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...second-stage rocket and a 300-lb. instrument package-a new record for U.S. satellite payloads (but still far behind Russia's 2,134-lb. Sputnik III). After 17 trips through its polar orbit, retrorockets were to plunge Discoverer V back into the atmosphere, and C-119 transport planes-trailing trapezelike devices to snare the descending parachute-were waiting 700 miles southwest of Hawaii. But Discoverer V was never heard from again. The Air Force will keep on trying to make a successful catch; it is a primary step toward returning a space man to earth alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

CORRECT ANSWERS to questions in Publisher's Letter: 1, C. 2, B. 3, A. 4, D. 5, C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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