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...photographers arrived early, giving their own thanks for the clear blue Thursday morning-and for Ike, light-footed and squire-like, who met them in a costume that shouted the autumn spectrum: green sport coat, yellow vest, polka-dot tie, tan Stetson. Photogenic as he was himself, the President came equipped with an even more picturable subject: his three frisky grandchildren, bundled joyfully in snowsuits and mittens, prepared to steal the scene as effectively as he hoped they would. With Ike and their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tony's Thanksgiving | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Dot for the I. Eddie Constantine's latest record is L'Homme et I'Enfant, in which he sings sentimental answers to a little girl's childish questions-the little girl being his eleven-year-old daughter Tania. Translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American in Paris | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Dot, Dash. To keep track of the seasons, the calendar makers had to have records, and this meant a system of written numbers. Of all these early systems, the most efficient was that of the Mayans, who used only three symbols-a dot (1), a dash (5), and an oval that could multiply each number 20 times. Meanwhile, other civilizations had other inventions. The Egyptians had to find ways to make a right angle so that the base of each pyramid would be an absolute square; they also had to find out how to measure land for taxes. Thus emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wonderful World | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...hotel greets its well-mannered guests with a massive display of paneled walls, beamed ceilings and straight-backed chairs, serves them tea to the discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Bad Form | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Atomic Cannon. Last week Okinawa was no longer anybody's junkyard. Four-lane highways lace the island. Modern typhoon-proof buildings dot the lush hills. On the seaside flatlands, Army warehouses stretch for serried miles. Hillsides are honeycombed with underground ammunition dumps. Offshore, sleek F-84s practice simulated A-bomb drops. And as the final cap to its new significance, the Army last week landed atomic cannon on Okinawa, the first in the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: OKINAWA: Levittown-on-the-Pacific | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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