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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington's Manger Hamilton Hotel, one of thousands of hotels offering family plans (children free), was caught in a dither when a couple from Kentucky showed up with eleven youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Summer 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Kathryn Murray catapulted through a sketch as a theater usherette pantomiming a gypsy musical, and rode herd on a typical Party: a swirl of waltzers, a specialty spot by Dancers Rod Alexander and Bambi Lynn, an amateur ballroom-dancing contest between three couples aged five to eleven, and, in the closing moments, an appearance by tall, erect Arthur Murray, 62, in time to waltz his wife away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Sponsor's Wife | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...first big cutback of the current economy drive, the Air Force last week issued a curt announcement that North American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North American had the missile gone into full production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Last of the Navahos | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...three months Knorke had gained eleven lbs. and was strong enough to leave the City Hospital. When he was sent back to the zoo, Rosemarie went along to take care of him. She spends twelve hours a day with Knorke, including a two-hour nap with him on her own bed. She intends to stay with him for another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gorilla & the Nurse | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises to be a summer show with winter vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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