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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same way, Gold reasoned, the "megaphysical" world (larger than galaxies) seems to have laws of its own. One of them is the mysterious force that causes the universe to expand, the galaxies fleeing from one another instead of being drawn together by gravitation. There may be many outlandish laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Non-Commonsense Cosmos | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...larger revolt than anticipated by U.S. diplomats, and a crucial factor in their misreading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Assassination | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...Love is not in its arguments and conclusions, but in the case histories it presents of four 19th century women who turned their backs on the progressive West and found salvation in the unemancipated East. All four of them, says Author Blanch, "seemed to sense in ... passivity far larger opportunities of self-expression." The four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Be Fulfilled | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...megaton H-bomb like the one detonated in "Operation Ivy" (TIME, April 12) were aimed at the White House, experts calculate that the laboratory would lie within the "heavy damage" radius (three to seven miles); and the expendable south annex would be shattered. If a much larger H-bomb were dropped, the monolith's chances of survival would be slim indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Design for Survival? | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Apparently such picture-stories filled the need of a century ago which "true-life" comics and pseudohistorical movies now supply with considerably more effort and expense. Seen in flickering candlelight and buttressed by proper rhetoric, they presented a lurid, larger-than-life view of the nation's early history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIG COMICS | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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