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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbudos know. It is not a picture of Fidel as he is physically; it is Fidel as he is seen spiritually by the great portion of the people of Cuba. It is, probably, a fleeting enlightenment captured on paper of that tremendous hope of God when he wanted to make man in his image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Early Deification | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...white feather hat and a gleaming brocade coat, Britain's Dame Edith Sitwell, 72, gave a poetry recital at Edinburgh. Part of the audience could not make out what she was saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks...

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

...from the British colony that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out of Africa | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...make her 400-meter victory even sweeter, Chris beat her great home-state rival, Berkeley's husky, 17-year-old Sylvia Ruuska (TIME, Mar. 9) by a full 7.5 sec., established herself as the most promising U.S. freestyler in years. Even so, Chris is still far from her peak. A leggy 5 ft. 10 in., 141 lbs., she is still filling out, should be faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Girl Swim | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Since World War II. designers have been busy as sea lawyers (or sea serpents) looking for loopholes, and building boats to make the most of them. Scion of the family-founded Luders Marine Construction Co., wiry, blond Bill Luders, 49, is one of the U.S.'s best sailors (at 16, he was 6-meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster Through a Loophole | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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