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In rainbow-colored Dieseland, divers will splash into four feet of water in the world's biggest dump truck (50 tons), and the public will tramp around a host of diesel-propelled attractions ranging from an 85-ton atomic cannon to a 63-ft. shrimp boat. The star of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Diesel Dazzle | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

From the West Flowery Gate to the Well of the Pearl Concubine, the Forbidden City is crammed with a sequence of halls, austere courtyards, and a garland of delicate gardens. Here emperors strutted on stiltlike shoes, empresses basked under peacock fans, concubines lustered their hair with elephant dung, and eunuchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INSIDE RED CHINA'S CAPITAL | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

"What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cat-o'-Nine-Tale | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow), ingyi (short-waisted, high-necked jacket) and longyi (skirt). Improbably, for a potentate from a faraway land, he came bearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Neutral but Nice | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

The Seven Little Foys (Paramount) has a story as relentlessly cute as an elephant in pinafores. Bob Hope, cast as the late Vaudevillian Eddie Foy, is supposed to be so allergic to women that in years of married life he sees his wife (Milly Vitale) only the minimum amount of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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