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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the G.N.P.'s upswing, the U.S. cost of living held just about steady, meaning that the added output was solid growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Threat to Health | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

As an author, lecturer and China specialist since the 1920s, New York's Edward Hunter is fascinated by words and their meanings, especially as they apply to the conflicts between Communism and the free world. Around 1950 Hunter heard a Chinese friend, talking about the methods of the Red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Insectivization | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

And now and then there is a western story-more often seen in print, but sometimes on film as well-in which there is neither a hero nor a villain in the traditional sense, but only a man, containing both Good and Evil, taking up the burden of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Whatever truth there may be in such explanations, the fantasies of the television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

* Meaning: Wednesday. Ghanaian children are traditionally named for the day of the week on which they are born. Kwame means Saturday.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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