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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs. Lyman clerked at Mike Bergstein's Main Street store, developed an Army-useful talent for shortening pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Ready with a Plan | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Scene of Victory | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...President feels that such an integration would have few advantages at the moment. He stressed that "the main business of a college is education" and that becoming part of the University would supply few educational advantages not already held by Radcliffe...

Author: By Victoria Thompson, | Title: Radcliffe Approaches Time of Consolidation | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

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