Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumbles of the Sinners, the Assassins, and other juvenile gangs, was raging with anger over the latest outbreak of wanton murder; since January, New York teen-age gang warfare had accounted for eight senseless killings and scores of beatings and knifings." Flanked by reporters, the police fanned out to follow the twisted trail left by "Cape Man," "Umbrella Man" and their pals...
...line, the State Department last week decided to lift the citizenship of a key Castro aide, Ohio-born Major William Morgan (TIME, Aug. 24), on the grounds that he is a member .of a t foreign army. Similar action against about a dozen other U.S.-born Castro soldiers will follow...
...Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
...Mile Crack. In pursuit of this theory the Lamont men, soon helped by other oceanographers, followed the crack in the sinuous ridge. Sometimes they spotted it on new depth charts, sometimes on old ones. When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans. By last week the Lamont men could trace the cracks 40,000 miles clear around the earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land...
...self-styled conservative. Byrd-refuses to follow the trend that is breaking down the barrier between classics and jazz, will not hop up a piece of serious music. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. "It destroys the fire of jazz-which should be hot-blooded and swing hard-and it makes inferior classical music." Byrd keeps the forms divorced, plays one, then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week...