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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers are usually singers before they know it, but they do not become pop without effort. Among the newest names close to the top are three who got there through extraordinary efforts...
Last week, with his "I Like Ike" model in the national eye (more than 125,000 have been sold), Ingram knew that he had at least one political party under his cap in 1956. This, combined with his newest creation, a visored French Foreign Legion type, scheduled to make its debut at fall football games, prompts Ingram to predict that his sideline will sell 50 million caps, gross...
...strategic roadway world conquerors from Babylon to Berchtesgaden have sped to their brief zenith and decay. In their day both Ramses II and Darius dug canals between the Nile and the Red Sea. As the North African sands still drift over the last burned-out tanks of Rommel, the newest Pharaoh of the Nile cries his claim for the road to the East...
...wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country at the Arizona-Nevada border. Close behind Lake Mead's 2,675,000-a-year traffic come the Great Smokies, with 2,580,000 a year. The newest of the parks, Florida's swampy Everglades, 1,258,000 acres set aside by Congress in 1947, draws about 250,000 annually...
...R.A.F. base at Katunayaka to Ceylon. In return, Ceylon offered to maintain there for the British "certain facilities enjoyed at present for communications, movements and storage." Britain offered to help Ceylon train its armed forces, and Ceylon accepted. For the British, this constituted a graceful retreat. And for the newest Prime Minister, Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike, who rode to office last April shouting demands that the British get out, it was a sensible compromise. By the light of the old imperialists, this was rather a sorry solitary achievement. But in all the shifts and strains of colonialism and anticolonialism...