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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with much regret that the free world heard the sad news concerning the death of the late and certainly great John Foster Dulles. Of all the many volumes that have been and could be written complimenting this great person, the highest praise I can think of is that the whole world, East and West alike, respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Last week Castro also: -¶ Heard 700 tobacco farmers vow that they were ready "to be led before firing squads" rather than comply with Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Red Setback | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: The Big Payola | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...because it requires far less vaccine. And Dr. Middlebrook believes that his method will interfere less with the standard tuberculin skin test for TB infection. Obscured results in this test have been a major factor in U.S. opposition to wide use of BCG, though the N.T.A. convention heard from Northwestern University's Dr. Guy Youmans last week about a cheap, simple blood test which may reinforce and partly replace the tuberculin test. Most important to Dr. Middlebrook is the simplicity of his proposed airborne vaccination: "It would be easy to immunize a theater full of children while they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Airborne Vaccination | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...investors also flock to the funds: such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oklahoma, and Texas Christian University have invested part of their endowments. The funds have been copied abroad in Great Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Mexico. Ten years ago, most people had never heard of mutual funds; now, the term is a household word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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