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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Abroad, Ayub has remained firmly pro-Western and a member of CENTO. He is the first leader of Pakistan to make a determined effort to improve relations with India. The problem of the canal waters of the Indus basin is nearing settlement (TIME, June 1). After twelve years of border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Benign Year | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Search for Facts. In Florida, the U.S. started investigating the charges "with great urgency," and two days later the FBI got its man: ex-Air Force Chief Diaz Lanz. He admitted to the FBI that he had written the pamphlets (calling Castro "the real traitor of the revolution") and flown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: No Time for Tourists | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

The enigma of famed Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lingers on chiefly because he swallowed the key to the Oppenheimer case-his own character. One of the strangest, most mystifying glimpses of that character was furnished by the "Chevalier incident," which played a substantial part in the Atomic Energy Commission'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oedipus at Los Alamos | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oedipus at Los Alamos | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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