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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's dream of sharing a common cake while hoarding a few goodies of her own riled some of the Common Market nations. Fortnight ago during the French debate on the Common Market, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flatly declared that a Free Trade Area which did not include agricultural products was unacceptable to France. The Danes and the Dutch felt the same way. In a less noble tone some continental economists insisted that Britain need not fear the Common Market plan so much since all signatories were equally sensitive to their own farm lobbies and had already built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Stocktaking | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of Hollywood's more durable marriages, Soprano Jeanette MacDonald and Actor Gene Raymond, a major in the Air Force Reserve, rubbed noses and nibbled wedding cake in Las Vegas, Nev., where Jeanette was singing at the Sahara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...embassy on the linden-tree-shaded Lange Voorhout in The Hague had the conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

There is plenty of evidence that research can solve many farm-surplus problems. Powdered eggs have been so improved that they have hatched a new line of cake and cookie mixes. Only a few years ago surplus-ridden citrus growers in Florida were destroy ing tons of oranges in an effort to bolster prices; now about 50% of their crop is being turned into frozen orange juice and many growers are expanding. A new process, developed by the Agriculture Department, to dehydrate cooked potatoes has proved so successful that several manufacturers have put the product on the market. Predicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH^: A New Approach to the Farm Problem | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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