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RANGED around the world TIME has the largest corps of correspondents reporting to any single publication -more than 440 fulltime and part-time reporters. Most of their time is spent in the hard, not necessarily glamorous job of reporting, observing, analyzing-and thinking-about the news. But at times, perhaps more often than the reporters for most other publications, they have a story that leads to real adventure. Such was the case with this week's color-picture story on the vast, wild Amazon River basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Symington proclaimed a program to aid the small farmer, Jack Kennedy called for some original Democratic thinking, and Hubert Humphrey (who has never delivered on the new farm program he promised at the last session of Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away in Des Moines on a Brannan-style farm plan that will call for direct production payments to farmers and tightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Ezra Benson's Harvest | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Washington this week, more than 200 Roman Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops will dedicate the largest Catholic church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Catholic Shrine | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Phoenix (pop. 370,000) has long smarted under the reproach that it was the largest U.S. city without an art museum of its own. "If you lived in Phoenix and you wanted to go to an art museum with a broad coverage of art," Actor-Collector Vincent Price once pointed out, "you'd have to go as far west as Los Angeles, as far south as Mexico City, as far east as Denver and as far north as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art in the Desert | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

MERGER TALKS are going on between Rock Island and Milwaukee railroads. Merger of the two Chicago-based carriers would result in substantial savings in operating costs, form a road with 18,000 miles of track, largest in U.S., and total assets of more than $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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