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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAWRENCE M. SKINNER Red Springs...

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

...m glad to see that someone in the Methodist Church cares enough about it to effect some much-needed changes in its liturgy. I say hurrah for the Rev. Bliss Wiant...

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

Chance to Break In. In Djakarta, Indonesia, Police Inspector M. Husin complained to the city government that Chinese convicted of minor offenses were paying substitutes high wages to serve their jail sentences for them...

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

...billion-a-year aircraft-manufacturing industry, fifth biggest in the U.S., is troubled and worried. Despite enormous backlogs of orders, most companies feel insecure, not only about the future but also about the present. Warned United Aircraft's Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner: "All of our military business is in jeopardy." What has put it in jeopardy is the change that missiles have brought to the industry. They not only promise the end of manned military bombers and fighters, but have brought such other lightning changes that huge projects, calling for hundreds of millions of dollars, can be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Low | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Grey as Wild Horse Mesa and Riders of the Purple Sage. The prose clomps along on two-by-four stilts ("There was completed in his mind a resolve to go down into Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they wash and shave in morning "ablutions." A well-adjusted cowpoke qualifies as "that worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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