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...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Syria's Angry Neighbors | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...told one of Sonali's kinsfolk that he wants to marry her. Suavely replied Roberto: "On the spur of the moment you say things you are not responsible for." Meanwhile, Sonali stayed put in her plush, air-conditioned quarters while the jasmine-scented nights of Bombay grew oppressively hotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...same turbine) are two pistons that slide back and forth. When they move together in the center, they compress a charge of air and heat it so hot that fuel sprayed into it burns immediately, as it does in a conventional diesel engine. The explosion heats the air still hotter, raises the pressure and forces the pistons apart. As they move away from each other, they do three things: 1) the large disks on their outer end draw fresh air from the atmosphere into chambers behind them; 2) they compress captive air in a "bounce chamber" at each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Turbine | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

HORSEPOWER RACE will get hotter in 1958. Chevrolet is building new eight-cylinder engine at Tonawanda, N.Y. plant, will make it about 3 in. to 4 in. lower, 6 in. longer and much more powerful than basic 162-h.p. V-8 on 1957 models. Next year's Chevy chassis will also be lower (though not so ground-hugging as 1957 Plymouth), along with Pontiac will get complete styling overhaul from General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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