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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No one begs in the Dominican Republic. First offense draws six months on the work farm, the second offense a couple of years, the third, life imprisonment. "Either they work," said my guide, "or they don't eat." Nor is there much unofficial crime, petty thievery and such. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Visitor in Trujillolcmd | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Last week, as his Belgian-born wife Tonia looked on and "prayed all the time," 38-year-old Don Campbell took Bluebird, slightly modified with stabilizing fin and redesigned rudder, in a foam-washed scud across the smooth surface of Lake Coniston in Lancashire at 275.15 m.p.h., negotiated the return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assault on the Summit | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

"I had come a far piece," he recalls of his departure from Little Rock, in a new book entitled It Has Happened Here (Harper; $2.95). "Little Rock was a classic example of what a community should not let extremists do to it. I did not think it could happen ... I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Counter-Revolution | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

The picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

480 Stewardesses. For fiscal 1959, MATS was directed by Congress to spend a minimum of $80 million on contracts to commercial carriers but actually spent only $69 million, 11% of its total budget. Hardest hit by MATS' competitive policy are the small all-cargo airlines, who depend on Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: MATS v. the Private Lines | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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