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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonidas Trujillo, who has 45 Vampires and the men to fly them. Castro has jailed so many Cuban air force pilots as "war criminals'' that he cannot get his present fighter force (two P-51s, twelve P-47s and 17 Sea Furies) off the ground. The accepted method of combatting the clandestine flights from Florida is to send out cops in squad cars to race along the highways to try to find the planes when they land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Enemies Underground | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...back as the 14th century, and perhaps before, Bavarian males have tested each other by the simple, direct method of sitting on opposite sides of a table, inserting their middle fingers in a leather loop and pulling. Well ballasted by beer, a hefty Bauerbursche (farm boy) can jerk an opponent belly-first across the table. At wedding receptions and opulent wakes, muscular champions of Fingerhackln (finger wrestling) customarily duel for a girl's favors. Last week in the market hall at Rosenheim, 76 burly Bavarians met for the Fingerhackln championship of the entire state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finger Exercise | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...eleventh week of pregnancy, whether a woman will have one baby, twins or triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One, Two or Three? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

DESALTING OF SEA WATER, which many governments are studying in hopes of finding an economic conversion process, is well along in the U.S. as part of a $10 million program. Carrier Corp. is testing a promising new method at a $150,000 pilot plant that will desalt water by freezing it, trapping salt crystals between fresh-water ice crystals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...method of education is not the method of oaths," he continued, "or the method of restriction of belief. We depend on free--not inhibited--inquiry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Attacks NDEA Oath, Notes Conflicts With Ideals | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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