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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high, but it is a balanced budget, and the third balanced budget in a row." And Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson huffed that he was getting fed up with his C. of C. friends who were complaining about the budget when they had never had it so good...
...themselves Palestinians, not Jordanians. They numbered about 400,000 people, were generally urban, better educated, and felt themselves superior to the 400,000 (mainly Bedouins) in Abdullah's old desert wastes. In addition came some 500,000 Arab refugees from Israel, who were huddled into tents and encampments, fed for 9? a day by the U.N., and left to nurse their resentments and stir to Cairo's inflammatory Voice of the Arabs...
Early morning is web-building time, so when Dr. Bercel opens the air-conditioned room the next day, he can tell at a glance how the spiders reacted to their meals. Most striking results so far have been seen in spiders fed with serum taken from patients suffering from the catatonic form of schizophrenia. The spiders seem to become catatonic too. They move listlessly and spend much time in their houses; the webs they spin are like the last vestiges of ragged lace. The spiders' reaction, like that of human volunteers injected with schizophrenic serum (TIME, May 14), shows...
Radar & the Breakthrough. The age of electronics, born of radio, was force fed by military necessity during World War II, when widespread use of radar and sonar extended man's eyes and ears far into the skies and deep into the ocean. With peace came radar's civilian counterpart : a vast new TV industry that has already put 42 million sets in U.S. homes. But the great breakthrough in electronics came in 1948. Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such...
Gentlemen's clubs aren't the only place where pornographic movies are shown. In a bachelor apartment in Brooklyn five white collar workers watched them into the early hours of the morning, with quite ungentlemanly motives. Three of them watched because they were a little drunk and a little fed up with their wifes, one because he was a virgin and was going to be married in two days, and the other because he just liked...