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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even 1954's tourist - would hardly recognize the place. Throughout West Germany, old military installations have become light industrial plants; along the middle Rhine, from Karlsruhe to the outskirts of the Ruhr district, new oil refineries and petrochemical plants are popping up like mushrooms. France's war-ravaged port city of Rouen has new docks, new bridges, new housing developments for 60,000 workers, who labor in refineries, operating with three times their prewar capacity, and in new plastics and textile plants. To the south, the land opposite Venice's drowsy lagoon has emerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Like the Cover of an old Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...upper level of bestseller lists and staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo medicine and pseudo science deserved. Probably least surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish it-no trick, since Murchison controls Henry Holt...

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

Privileged Class. In Milwaukee, before Detective Charles Littnan arrested a 19-year-old he was chasing on suspicion of burglary, the boy shouted back: "You can't shoot me. I'm a teen-ager...

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

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Boy on Page One deals with forgotten four-to ten-year-old orphans, shows how agencies in Hamilton, Ontario, have found homes for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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