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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the Congressmen who obediently voted for Nehru's resolutions insisted privately that they were against them. The Times of India labeled the plan a "distribution of poverty," and Frank Moraes, well-known editor of the Indian Express, called it "a cowardly alibi for collectivism." Critics raised the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Rise of Voices | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Abbot Soong headed the Tien Chen Cloister in Shanghai. He died at the age of 62 in 1942. What makes Abbot Soong unique that he predicted, a year before his death, not only the time of his death but the fact that his body would not decompose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

¶The House rejected a compromise farm bill for higher wheat supports and restricted acreage, thus headed off a move to make the farm subsidy mess even worse.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Big Split | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

March of a Nation. Now old and nearly blind, tall, austere Eamon de Valera, 76, had stepped down as Taoiseach (Prime Minister), confident that his people would send him "into the park," i.e., to the presidential residence in Dublin's Phoenix Park and to the job that he himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: The Old Country | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The two men responsible for the nation's ICBM program are both ex-Air Force officers. Convair's Atlas team is headed by J. R. ("Jim") Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Ringing the Brass | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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