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According to Hoyte. The project is the dream of a studious British engineer named John Hoyte, who at 26 is three years younger than Hannibal was at the time of his invasion. Hoyte became a Hanniphile in 1955 while studying at Cambridge. In 1956 he led a reconnaissance group into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Elephant Walk | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Belle herself was less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Bawd | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Hawk-eyed Evangelist Billy Graham came home from Europe after seeing the sights in London (TIME, June 22), sighting the signs in Moscow. His observation of the U.S.S.R.: "They have not been able to stamp out God in Russia . . . Went to a number of churches, and I estimate that at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

The death throes of Tibet were made graphic as some 7,000 rebel refugees surged across the border into India. Many were wounded; some still carried the weapons with which they had futilely battled the Red Chinese. At Misamari, an abandoned Indian airport that was used in World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Significant Shift | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

To the adoring masses of Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah is "Showboy," and Guineans pay tribute to the strength of their President Sekou Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE IVORY COAST: ViVe | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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