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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dream of the day when they will be able to replace any worn-out or damaged human organ with a spare part, either artificially made or taken from another person. That medical Utopia seems to be coming closer. Last week a little boy with a ruptured aorta was technically dead for 2¾ hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...city-killing potential is grimly set out: "An attack on 50 of our most important urban centers would, in the absence of effective defensive measures, produce at least 10 to 15 million dead, 15 to 20 million injured from blast and heat, and another 25 to 35 million casualties from fallout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE USSR's CHALLENGE: Rockefeller Report Calls for Better Military Setup, Sustained Will | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Workers' Union, in 1948, after suffrage had been broadened, took over the legislature (the party now holds 15 of 24 seats). In 1954 he got the title of Prime Minister, and last year he was knighted. He boasts that "the spirit of feudalism that ruled Barbados is as dead as Queen Anne." But with 230,000 people jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST INDIES: Cabinet for Barbados | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Jerry Mathers) and brother Wally (Tony Dow). 12, and their attractive parents (Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley) add up to a pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first black eye and the first crush on teacher, selling water on the hottest day of the year and seeing through the emperor's clothes with such remarks as "A picnic is when you go out in the country and eat food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Monroe-comes staggering up to the trailer she shares with her Army husband and mumbles through bruised lips that she has been raped and beaten by Saloon Keeper Barney Quill. Her husband, Lieut. Frederic Manion, stuffs a Luger in his pocket, marches into the saloon and coolly shoots Quill dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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