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The Minters were Melvin Minter, a Negro lumber worker from Ansley, La., his wife and ten children (aged 2 to 17), heading for Yakima, Wash., where Minter had a new job waiting. One morning last month, as they approached Fruita in their pickup truck on Highway 6, a car nosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Good Neighbors | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

In the one-mile Derby Trial, barrel-chested Hill Gail and banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro romped to a six-length victory in track-record time (1:35.4). The 78th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Derby was almost as easy for them. Breaking from the No. 1 position, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Combination | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

In the bar of a stateside officers' club one evening last week, a fighter pilot home from Korea was describing the war in the air. Using the gestures that all flyers use on the ground, he nosed over into a steep dive and pulled out sharply. Then something went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pressurized Pilots | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

The pilot who nosed his twin-engine B-26 bomber through the skies of North Korea one night last week was as eager as any other 26-year-old on his third night mission. Four years out of West Point, he had been in Korea only three weeks. His name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: I Don't Want Tears | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Paris shuddered at such tactics. Left-wing Paris dailies likened De Hautecloque to Hitler, and predicted dire trouble in Tunisia. Instead, after two days, the shaken Bey, who looks like a distinguished European actor impersonating an Arab, yielded to French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Smooth Coup | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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