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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looms in relatively few areas (and relatively few white Southerners will stand for it). But where it looms, it is terribly effective. In Liberty County. Fla. last year, all but one of the first ten Negro registrants in the county's history took their names off the voting list after a set of cross-burnings, bomb-throwings and shots fired into their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN NEGROES & THE VOTE: Tke Blot Is Shrinking, But It Is Still Ugly | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Creating new heavy elements is a scientific tour de force that gets harder and harder as the easier possibilities are knocked off the list. When Chemist Paul R. Fields of the Argonne National Laboratory got into the game last year, all the elements above uranium (No. 92 and nature's heaviest) through element No. 101 (mendelevium) had already been synthesized.*He knew that the next candidate, element No. 102, would be the toughest yet. Last week, in a joint release of Argonne, Britain's Harwell laboratory and Sweden's Nobel Institute for Physics, a U.S.-British-Swedish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists, Run! | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson) and four New York sculptors (Rhys Caparn, David Hare, Seymour Lipton, Ezio Martinelli). Their paintings and sculptures range from simplified realism to completely nonobjective works, but both shows have a strong list to the abstract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CONTEMPORARIES ABROAD | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...INDUSTRY, now increasing its list of 30 million U.S. customers by almost 1,000,000 a year, will spend $2.13 billion on expansion this year v. $1.55 billion in 1956, is budgeting $8.7 billion for new facilities through 1960. Nearly half of money will go to extending gas-transmission facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...able to detect ammunition dumps on the French coast. Since Hitler was queer for occult arts, Military Intelligence was told to furnish a Hungarian astrologer with the birth dates of high-ranking German officers. This piece of nonsense led to the useful discovery that the War Office's list of enemy officers was pretty much made up of dead or retired Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Their Funniest Hour | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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