Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will toward Dulles has been building for a long time. Britain never forgave him for blurting, after the Suez crisis-while attempting to point up the Middle East's low esteem for Britain and France-that if he were an American soldier he would not like to fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian...
...potatoes turn brown? What is the molecular secret of life itself? The answers could not shoot and therefore should not be bought with defense dollars. Why would anyone want to go to the moon? An outer-space satellite could not destroy a target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development cuts took the Army down from $596 million to $327 million, the Navy from $666 million to $505 million ("That's a lotta money to spend on research, young fella," said Wilson to a Navyman...
CIGARETTE SMOKERS are spending more than ever but getting less tobacco. Although U.S. cigarette production puffed to record 441 billion in 1957, total tobacco output dipped 23% from 1956 to postwar low of 1,680 million Ibs. Five years ago makers rolled out 325 cigarettes per Ib. of tobacco; in 1957 they manufactured 360 per Ib. by using filters and homogenized tobacco leaf (TIME, June...
...Norma Talmadge, 60, velvet-eyed star of the silent screen, best-known of three moviemaking sisters (the others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican...
Peyton Place (Jerry Wald-20th Century-Fox) cuts some of the sex and violence from Grace Metalious' hugely profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still...