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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this state of affairs, the Swiss and Swedes privately suggested dissolution of the inspection commission. At last the U.N. command agreed. Early one morning last week, 16 neutral inspection members stationed in South Korea's three main ports of entry-Kunsan, Inchon and Pusan-were told to pack up their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Inspectors, Go Home | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...quite a trick. The "Big Spin in the Brickyard" has always been a race with disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Irish Luck | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...same can be said of pomaded, 49-year-old Azam Jah, Prince of Berar and eldest son of India's wizened, 72-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad. Nobody knows exactly how rich the Prince's father is. For one thing, a pack of rats recently chewed their way through $8,000,000 in currency stored in moldy trunks in the Nizam's palace vaults, leaving their value in question. For another, the old Nizam abruptly fired a man hired to count and appraise his trunks full of jewels when he heard the job would take a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Down to His Last Palace | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...tried to get the mayor to fire Police Chief Jim Purcell, but only, he said, because the chief was in cahoots with Rack eteer Elkins. Cried District Attorney Langley, a Democrat elected in 1954 with strong Teamsters' support: "Reports that I have plotted with the Teamsters are a pack of lies." He charged that the tapes were doctored and spurious, accused Racketeer Elkins of trying to blackmail him with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal in Portland | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Actress Marie Windsor and Actor Elisha Cook, however, outdistance the field with ease in what might be called their obscenes of married life. And the camera watches them, watches the whole shoddy show with the keen eye of a terrier stalking a pack of rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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