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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The stubborn, stolid disregard by the steel industry and the Steelworkers for the general welfare, as they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut...
The airplane was a brand-new model of the four-jet Boeing 707, the first 707 destined for Braniff International Airways. Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive...
26 Abstentions. When the vote was finally taken in the U.N. General Assembly. 45 nations approved a resolution implicitly "deploring" Red China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained...
Signs of Progress. At home Ayub Khan cleaned house by firing some 2,000 corrupt bureaucrats, cracked down on black-marketeers and hoarders, collected long overdue taxes, and even retrieved two tons of gold from the sea, where it had been sunk by smugglers. Big landowners were forced to disgorge...
Along the gleaming Boulevard Pasteur the luxury shops were empty, and the innumerable stalls of the city's moneychangers were closed in protest. Unexpectedly Morocco's King Mohammed V had issued a dahir (royal decree) revoking the charter he had granted Tangier in 1957 after his government took...