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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1947, is a four-jet bomber with a probable range of 1,000 to 1,500 miles and bomb load of 5,000 Ibs. Some experts believe that the plane is too light to pick up Russia's Abomb, but another four-jet bomber, the German-designed JU-287 (bomb load nearly 9,000 Ibs.) is said by Jane's to be in "limited production" at Kuibyshev...
...last six months, are responsible for almost as many jokes as the Toonerville Trolley. In a current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
Rivera's latest mural, which was unveiled last summer in Mexico City's new Del Prado Hotel, made history too (TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...
...dangerous precedent," warned Chinese Justice Mei Ju-ao. Even some Japanese were cautious in praise of the decision. "We are keenly alive to the honor of a supreme court of a democracy which does not rest content unless every doubtful point is eliminated," editorialized Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, "but what concerns us most is the issue of how to safeguard the world against war crimes...
Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...