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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian girls who is beautiful just as she is-with just a little help from the beauty industry. Her name is Madonna Blue Horse [see cut]. She is the 1958 winner of the "Marylike Contest" sponsored by the Holy Rosary Mission of Pine Ridge, S. Dak., the largest Indian mission in our country...
...summer quest for the tourist dollar, the world's largest city paraded an exuberant proclamation for the tourist to read: "New York Is a Summer Festival." But grimly unfestive was a shadowy battle that had swirled through the city streets during winter and spring, indeed during all the seasons since World...
...crime laboratory that is second largest in the world (after the FBI's); a 3,700,000-card fingerprint file that also ranks second...
...Europe by Napoleon's armies to surpass such Bourbon largesse. "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples," Napoleon boasted. The booty kept flowing in, including such masterpieces as Veronese's Marriage at Cana, largest canvas (22 ft. by 32 ft.) in the Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon's Louvre the central...
...major antirecession move, the nation's largest steel producer last week plunked down another hefty bet on the future. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to raise $300 million through debentures in mid-July. The bond offering will rank among the largest ever made by an industrial firm, equaling Big Steel's in 1954 and issues floated by General Motors in 1953 and General Electric in 1956. Said Robert C. Tyson, chairman of Big Steel's Finance Committee: "The purpose of this is to add money to our funds to restore working capital that we have used...