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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, a century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smouhaha | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...slag-heaped surface as miners coughed out their lives. Emile Zola saw the Borinage in the 1880s and poured its horror into his powerful classic, Germinal. A few aged miners still remember the emaciated, stubble-bearded Dutch preacher named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived in one of their hovels, held services and sketched their bowed bodies with fever-palsied hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: The Black Country | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff, 5½-day-a-week curriculum for the boy, taught all the courses themselves except German. They are well enough qualified to do so; they are college graduates, and Mary Krai has held teaching certificates from Nebraska and Colorado. Her 35-year-old husband was trained as a chemist, now heads the Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing Co.'s applied mathematics & statistics department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Tommy | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...court. Both are married to surgeons-Betty to onetime (1935) Princeton Football Captain W. Pepper Constable; Peggy to Robert White of Rochester. Each has three children. Chief difference: Betty is lefthanded. Peggy was champion in 1952 and 1953. Betty won in 1950, regained her championship in 1956 and has held it ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Howes & Squash | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...years that he has held the job, pleasant, retiring Murray Snyder has quietly become one of the most contentious figures in Washington. The military men, contractors to the Department of Defense, and newsmen who deal with Snyder are close to unanimous in the opinion that he stands as a major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pentagon's Closed Door | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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