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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown as preventing the Indian government from accepting U.S. atom bombs. Captain Boning supposedly is the only American technical expert at an Asian arms conference, and he ruins the whole show by giving a hesitant answer to a question about A-bombs that a bright high school student could furnish (the reason he is hesitant is that he is sleepy, having spent most of his nights with a Communist-Chinese cutie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Man's Burden | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...medical school, but at 23 he had picked up enough dissecting skill to become house surgeon at London's St. George's Hospital. At 25 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, spent the next six years putting together his book "to furnish the student and the practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 100 Gray Years | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...tunnel or canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. The water would drop 1,800 ft. below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption in the U.S. by 1980 (v. 221 billion in 1955), has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water Divining | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...enough. The real remedy for the industry's ailments is to produce better-styled, lower-priced furniture. Kroehler recently brought out a medium-priced line (see cut) that follows the new trend of matching pieces for all rooms, and it is selling well. With it, a family can furnish a two-bedroom house for less than $2,000. Furniture men will have an increasingly tough time trying to sell cheap but poorly made or cheap but flashy furniture, known in the trade as "Borax." Said Indianapolis Retailer Harry Schacter, co-chairman of the new council: "Manufacturers and retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSUMER GOODS: Furniture Sag | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Your cover portrait of Walter O'Malley will furnish me with an ideal dart board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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