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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Free Passage? | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...even then was Emma's anger expended. After a vicious sideswipe at Korea (where she killed eleven people and caused $280,000 damage), she headed into Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Here, blowing at speeds up to 115 m.p.h., she devastated hundreds of square miles, smashing some 2,000 houses and killing an estimated 30 Japanese. In her sultry wake fires sprang up, one of which half razed the city of Uozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Emma's Maw | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Under the terms of Hatoyama's proposal, the Russians would get a Tokyo embassy as a prestige place and as a legal base for propaganda and espionage activities. Their payments would be three cheap concessions: release of some 11,175 Japanese P.W.s still held eleven years after V-J day, formal agreement to let the Japanese fish in Russian waters, and support of Japan's application for U.N. membership. Convinced that the U.S.S.R. would not refuse so attractive an offer, Hatoyama last week confidently booked air passage to Moscow for the end of this month. "Mr. Hatoyama," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Flight to Moscow | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...heat of inspiration, Vincent Van-Gogh could put in a straight eleven-hour stretch before his easel, then sit down and write: "These colors give me extraordinary exaltation. I have no thought of fatigue; I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall bring it off. I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful; I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as in a dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: VAN GOGH IN HIGH YELLOW | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Almost every day this month, the Venezuelan government's ordinarily dry Gaceta Oficial has been publishing a flood of mouth-watering news. For the first time in eleven years, and for fabulous sums, the government is selling off new oil concessions, some from the rich, crude-soaked national reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Come & Get It | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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