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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant, in constant danger of death from pneumonia or choking in his own saliva, was still an insupportable burden to his father (a low-paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Correcting Nature's Error | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals. He also wanted peace doves released at each ceremony. But of all the proposals Izvestia received, none hit the mark so squarely as one from Odessa. After complaining about the "colorless and dreary routine" of the registry offices, V. Runanov suggested that every city have "a special building-the best in town" just for marriages and other happy events. Last week, as if to make V. Runanov's dream come true, the U.S.S.R. got its first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: A Palace for the Bride | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting British sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...citizen's curiosity about U.S. time payments-and particularly about the fate of defaulters-showed up strongly at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years. A trial in Odessa last February was hugely popular, although sloppy bookkeeping ended the venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: On the Red Cuff | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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