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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declaration of Enmity. That was not the language of force, but in the cadences of diplomacy it was almost as severe. Eden had taken his nation far out on a limb: after such talk Britain had either to pressure Nasser into backing down or compromising or it had to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: To Teach a Lesson | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Though a President's son, Hernan Siles literally had to fight his way. Slight (5 ft. 4 in.), nearsighted and mild-mannered, he has endured war and exile, and led a bloody revolution. At 20 he was wounded in Bolivia's Chaco War with Paraguay. At 27 he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Fighter to the Fore | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Spiritual followers of Jacob Hutter, a 16th century Moravian patriarch who preached literal obedience to the Scriptures, the Hutterites first settled in South Dakota; in 1918 many of them moved to Alberta to escape U.S. draft laws. They established seven colonies, or Bruderhofe, each with 50 to 75 members. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Promised Land | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Hard to Escape. The organization that helps answer that question is Princeton's Educational Testing Service (no kin to Princeton University), which in eight years has become an extraordinary power in U.S. education. It began when three separate groups-the College Entrance Examination Board, the Carnegie Foundation for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Testmakers | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

For two days in the Senate last week a dogged trio of liberal Democrats-Missouri's Tom Hennings, New York's Herbert Lehman and Illinois' Paul Douglas-urged the Senate to blast the Administration's Civil Rights bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Argued Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death for Civil Rights | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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