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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of the Mediterranean. Even Parisian roughnecks from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion from Algeria | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Megacycle Mix...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Smithsonian Astronomers Keep Hectic Pace | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

There were indications tonight that one or more generals, and perhaps other officials, were being "chewed out" over the mix-up, coming as it did at a time of high tension in the South...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Army Retracts Riot Alert Issued to Troops in South | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Patient Seeds. Witchweed's way of life is one of the strangest in nature. The plants produce vast numbers of barely visible seeds, sometimes as many as half a million from a single plant. The seeds fall to the ground and mix with the soil, where they can lie for 20 years without losing vitality. A seed does not normally germinate until the rootlet of a suitable plant creeps close to it through the soil. Influenced by a mysterious substance that the root secretes, the seed wakes up. Out of it pokes a root that snakes through the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Red Flower | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...mix misses, see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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