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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When reached for comment, Edward L. Croman '60, said the Wednesday date was "fine with him," but he hoped that no new members would "vote in the dark...
...blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red and white stripes. Said the President as he signed: "Well, that is a historic thing." And at ceremony's end he noted to the special guests, Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Alaska Senators-elect E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, that a 50th star-for Hawaii-could be added to the national flag quite simply by putting eight stars in the middle...
...l Castro Ruz, 28, Fidel's brother, took on command of front-line fighting after the rebels decided to keep Fidel as a symbol and out of danger. Raúl, who sports a Texas hat and shoulder-length hair but could not manage to grow a beard, matched Batista terror for terror, may find it hard to lay his pistol down. A onetime delegate to a student congress behind the Iron Curtain, he denounces U.S. "imperialism," likes to bait the U.S. (as when he seized 47 U.S. citizens as hostages last summer...
...that makes heavy smokers the commonest victims of lung cancer, the pioneer researchers in the field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung cancer (TIME, March...
...L'Air de Paris (Jacqueline Francois; Columbia LP). Unlike her world-weary compatriot, Juliette Greco, Chanteuse Francois breathes her Paris airs with the garlicky gusto of a clothesmonger in the Flea Market. Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head on a well-sharpened guillotine...