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The U.S. lay beneath blue skies, benign and contented amid the pageant of the colorings of fall. Aspens turning gold flecked the dense green forests and bleak grey sides of the Rockies; maples turning orange and red spread a magic fire across the dour woods of Minnesota; dahlias glowed purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The New America | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Political Inflammability. Along with political difficulties, Ponce will have to cope with an ailing economy and a near-empty treasury. The nation's income from exports (bananas, cacao, coffee) fell off this year. President Velasco ran up deficits by spending lavishly for public works and-to keep the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Minority President | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

An angry group of whites marched on city hall, demanding that the beer hall be moved out of the city to Negro quarters. But they got a brusque reply from American-born City Councilor Hyman Miller, an ex-mayor of Johannesburg. Snapped Miller angrily: "You can't put down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Riot at the Mai-Mai | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

One of the kidnaped girls is raped by four braves and killed off early in the picture. The other (Natalie Wood), when finally found, proves to be a contented member of Chief Scar's harem. Wayne is so annoyed that he tries to shoot her dead and is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

By now, even the hungriest reader might find the most sympathetic character a half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Moose & Men | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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