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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro's revolution had never moved at higher speed. Grinding out decree after decree last week, the Prime Minister ordered some 500 prisoners turned over to civilian courts, promised to restore the right of habeas corpus within 90 days, reopened the University of Havana, confiscated the holdings of 117 firms (mostly construction companies that gave kickbacks to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista). This week, Castro transported the entire Cuban Cabinet into the Sierra Maestra country, where his revolution began, and promulgated his pet law-land reform. He brought along $1,000,000 to make the first farm loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Creative Stage? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...most familiar particle accelerators are cyclotrons, synchrotrons, etc., which whirl ionized particles many times around a circular path, giving them more and more speed. But at the higher energies, the whirling particles are hard to control and give low beam intensity. Linear accelerators are relatively simple in principle, but tremendously complicated to engineer, and require much more space. Starting electrons at one end of a long, straight path, they push them toward the other end by a carefully timed series of microwave pulses, producing very high energies with the electrons concentrated in a high-intensity beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms Under the Mountain | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Like their counterparts in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis. Pay scales are still lower in the South, range higher in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul, to a peak in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Strike | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices. The De Gaulle government used its emergency powers to pass a law making it a six-month jail offense for a wholesaler to discriminate against a retailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Apostle Behind the Counter | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Certainly, Stendahl had no intention of showing Julien exciting this mortal coil to the unconstrained accompaniment of a chorus of screeching voices, dominated by vibrating sopranos who soar higher and higher. Again, Stendahl had no intention of letting the weather conspire with the gods on the day of Julien's execution to show cloudiness and blue, the spacious firmament. Sorel strode to his death all right, but not to the majestic rumble of five symphonies' worth of kettle drums...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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