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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Changing pace, the Sahara in Las Vegas was offering a "family show" (no nudes; Dan Dailey), and the first family of onetime Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio turned up for the occasion. Look-alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plastic School | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...action was so dull at the U.S. tennis nationals at Forest Hills last week that the New York Times's Allyn Baum, looking for a new angle, snapped Peru's Alex Olmedo lunging for a ball. The Times airbrushed out the player and printed his shadow, making it look like an ancient cave painting (see cut). The picture made a telling point: amateur tennis was only a shadow of its former self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shadow for Substance | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

First Million. As a starting pitcher, Sad Sam ("Take a look at this mug. What else can they call me?") is at his grim best against the Giants' challengers. He has five wins over Milwaukee, three over Los Angeles. What is more, Jones is willing and able to trudge in from the bullpen to save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Sources, 17 Reports. Government officials were uniformly unhelpful. Not that they did not try-in a land with little or no communications, they were merely uninformed. When one freshly arrived newsman asked Defense Minister Sounthone Pathammavong for a quick briefing on the situation, the minister shot him an injured look, plaintively asked: "Can you tell me?" In Samneua, Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong blithely informed reporters that "only about 20% of our troops are missing"-only to be just as blithely contradicted by Lieut. General Ouane Rathikone, chief of staff: "All our men were either killed or taken prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Getting the News from Laos | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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