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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Buckingham Palace moved with the speed of light to scotch rumors that the Duke of Edinburgh might invite Adamski around to see his Queen: "The royal family has decided that it cannot entertain Mr. Adamski or his ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...furiously as a Buddhist's placidity will permit-to rebuild his political power and get the military back into the barracks. In a May Day speech, he proposed a "struggle to win hearts," declaring that the country "is being confronted with the worst situation since independence. People cannot enjoy fundamental rights; in fear of the authorities they keep silent." His remedy seemed to be something approaching a civil disobedience campaign: "If a participant in the nonviolent struggle should be arrested, or beaten or tortured or murdered, we must show joy . . . We will oppose anger and hostility with love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Struggle for Hearts | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...discovery, researchers in the U.S., Britain, Italy and Germany went to work. Last week a three-man team headed by Bonn University Chemistry Professor Friedhelm Korte, who also runs a Shell oil company laboratory in suburban Bonn, announced it had at last synthesized Iridomyrmecin. Cautioned a Shell spokesman: "We cannot say how much the new stuff will cost and when it will be marketed, because we do not know ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Insecticide? | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...once the grand drama of humanity's survival collapses into an irrelevant wrangle about racial discrimination that has no more real significance, under the circumstances of the story, than a hotfoot in hell. Adam and Eve fall in love, but Adam refuses to accept the fact. He cannot begin a new world because he cannot forget the old; he cannot let social injustice die with the society that fostered it. At this point the moviemakers introduce a particularly amiable snake into their unedifying Eden. A cultivated white man (Mel Ferrer) wanders into town; and of course he too falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The World, The Flesh and The Devil | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...under such strict federal regulation that (except for thefts from hospitals and doctors) practically no legitimate drugs get to the addicts. But tons of narcotics are smuggled in, mostly from Italy, much by such Mafia leaders as Vito Genovese. The Treasury Department's 420-man Bureau of Narcotics cannot check the flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prescription from the Bench | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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