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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: Song of Norway, Edvard Grieg's music; the park commission's fireworks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Mechanized Dinosaur. With the promise of $2,000,000 from the Atomic Energy Commission, Alvarez and his team went to work on a chamber 6 ft. long. The difficulties became fantastic. The electromagnet surrounding the chamber had to weigh 200 tons. The great machine had to be movable, but wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 72 Inches of Bubbles | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

The vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Western Cultures | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

For almost 16 years, a bitter battle has raged between Carter Products, Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission over one word: liver. The FTC first tried in 1943 to get the "Liver"' dropped from Carter's Little Liver Pills. The pills, said the agency, did not help a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Word | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

That's Freedom. From the moment Fred realized he was in, he had only one thought: how to get out. One day he stole credentials belonging to a bunkroom buddy, went quietly over the hill and presented himself at a Trappist cloister under the first of his false identities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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