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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Element of Fear." In Kashmir over the weekend, Nehru still clung to his confusion. He attributed Red China's attitude toward Tibet to an "element of fear" in Peking. He also saw the Peking regime as "the strongest government China has ever had in all her history ... [a] basic fact [that] cannot be ignored in formulation of policies by nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: By Full Moonlight | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Jordan doing? Got a really good man there, solid all the way." It was apparent that the second half had really done things to the huge Hickman. The white button-down shirt he were clung to his Dulky frame, wrinkling just a little as he bent forward...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/3/1950 | See Source »

...nights later the sandstorm still raged, and a second DC-4 was lost Like the first plane, it was also on the final approach to the airstrip. It plunged into the sea within a mile of the first. The passengers who got out clung to the tail, and then, as the plane sank, to its broken aerial wire. Total loss in the two crashes: 85 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Tragic Coincidence? | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Despite threats from its big Red neighbor, this nation clung to democracy, re-elected its independent President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pigeons & People | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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