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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also lets the rebels maintain five hospitals, five arms depots and a network of training camps in such towns as Béja, Gafsa and Souk-el-Arba. All F.L.N. recruits, declare the French, are sent to Tunisia for two months' basic training; currently French intelligence estimates the number of F.L.N. troops in Tunisia at from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Short of War | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Singer Johnnie Ray, 31, stood at the microphone in Philadelphia's Latin Casino, opened his mouth wide, and slid into a number he has sobbed to audiences the world over: The Little White Cloud That Cried. To club patrons, it seemed the same old lachrymose wheeze, but to Johnnie the effect was like "the first atom bomb, exploding in pieces everywhere." Singer Ray had abandoned his familiar hearing aid, for the first time in his career was able to hear his own caterwauling at its painfully natural decibel count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Full Volume | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...play electronic bingo on the daily show, a viewer had to pick a listed phone number and write the five digits out under the letters BINGO. Then each figure was extended downward consecutively for five rows. If a player picked 7-1091, his bingo card would look like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bingo! | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...showdown, Chairman Kress will have a hard time overcoming the rebels. Since they are a majority of the foundation's trustees, they have 42% of the stock in their control, will need only a small number of proxies from other stockholders to gain a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Revolt at Kress | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Long-lived animals would suffer most because their reproductive tissue would accumulate damage over a long period. Their mutation rate might be doubled, think Krasovsky and Shklovsky, if cosmic rays were stepped up by three to ten times the present number. They might accumulate enough harmful mutations to destroy the species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Killed the Dinosaurs? | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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