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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweden 150 years ago in frank imitation of the ancient Roman 'tribunes of the people," whose job it was to watch the administration of justice and give assistance to citizens who were treated harshly, it has since spread to Finland and Denmark, is likely to be adopted this fall by Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Grievance Man | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Jordan. In the same anxious week a year ago, British troops returned to Jordan. The loneliest ruler in the Middle East when the British troops pulled out in the fall, 23-year-old King Hussein has held his shaky military regime together with his own courage and $50 million from the U.S. Nasser, caught up in a struggle for power with Kassem, has quit his vicious radio attacks on the little King, now talks of resuming relations with Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Jima, is normally a genial and patient man, but ever since he took over his command in 1957 he has been disgusted by the way the wives and children of his officers and airmen were behaving in Japan. He fired his first salvo last fall, when he bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents." He blamed "cheap entertainment in the clubs and cheap domestic help in the home." Japanese maids, says Colonel Johnstone, "are expected by some Americans to cook, clean, launder, answer the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Colonel's Crusade | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week architects were busy drawing plans for an office building to replace the Garden-long since gone to seed-while bartenders and chambermaids were out hunting new jobs. Come fall, bulldozers will grunt across the grounds, toppling the tall cypresses and pepperwoods. Tons of earth will be dumped into the swimming pool in which wobbly guests once cooled their hangovers. Soon, sightseeing buses will drive along the curve of Sunset Boulevard between Schwab's Drugstore and the gabled Marmont Chateau, with rubberneck guides remembering nasally: "Alla Nazimova lived here once. Paramount built her a mansion. The swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Fairless in 1955. Unlike Ben Fairless. who used to tour the steel mills with McDonald, Blough believes in keeping the union brass at a distance, never hesitates to take on the union in public. His hard new line is no quickly thought-up policy; as long ago as last fall, he met with other steel executives to work out the strategy for holding the line on the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Man of Steel | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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