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...cheers died away, Old Dan Reed was on his feet demanding a showdown. "I'm not surrendering!" he shouted, shaking his fist. "Let's get the vote now and see where you stand. Stand up like men!" The House stood up and cheered honest, stubborn Dan Reed. The Democrats, who appreciated the trouble he had caused the Republicans, cheered the hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Battle for a Tax | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

With iron fist and velvet glove, the rulers of Communist East Germany sought to erase the memory of the 17th of June. From the massive Soviet embassy in Unter den Linden streamed decrees and orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Memory of June 17 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...France's National Museum of Natural History stumbled across dim traces of primeval man. He was digging into a rich deposit of animal bones between the cities of Constantine and Setif when he found some peculiar stones. They were about the size of a man's fist, smooth and rounded on one side and cut into rough facets on the other. At first he thought they were natural accidents, but when he found 300 of them in one small area, he decided that no accident could have brought them together. Geologists backed him up; the odd stones, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...bones of the creature were found, so Arambourg cannot say what type he belonged to. Certainly he lived a long time ago. The animal bones associated with the fist-axes were of long extinct animals, including the stylohipparion (a primitive horse) and the libytherium (a short-necked giraffe). Arambourg thinks that these animals are about one million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...lake shore then, swarming with large and dangerous animals. Among them slunk the weak humanoids, armed with the first of the weapons that man had created. Perhaps they killed a few of the animals. Perhaps, like hyenas, they scavenged the kills of the powerful carnivora, using their fist-axes to crack the bones for the marrow inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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