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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese people. What we could not see in our limited visit we learned directly from General MacArthur, who invited us to lunch at the American embassy. The farseeing general predicted to us then-in 1946-that the Japanese traditional way of life would soon become a thing of the past. How true his prediction was, and how well TIME has shown this in its pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...leads up to Iraq's huge, yellow-walled Ministry of Defense, a Bofors 40-mm. dual-barrel gun last week glared out at the city of Baghdad. Backing it up were leveled .50-cal. machine guns and recoilless rifles mounted on Jeeps. And even such visitors as got past the gun-toting sergeant at the ministry door were never more than a few feet from the business end of an automatic weapon. Padding up and down the corridors of the ministry, young officers of the Iraqi army kept firm hand on submachine guns or machine pistols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...innate curiosity and passion of the young for novelties. The bulk of Spain's people-including many of Franco's own supporters-are restive. They would like to form political parties other than Franco's moribund Falange, and they already operate underground parties. In the past fortnight the black letter P has appeared on the walls of Barcelona. It stands for protesto, and was put there by Catholics who want the right to organize a public Christian Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 20 Years After | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...past, this State power has been the source of frequent skirmishes between the traditionally Democratic City government and the usually Republican State Legislature. Any new sources of revenue that the City wishes to exploit must first be approved by the legislature; since this is an age where budgets grow bigger, not smaller, the City has had to look for expanded revenues each year. Thus, the state's control has become a very meaningful...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Bulging Budget | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

Because the Club is actually a rather loose organization of former college stars, it is difficult to judge what players will even show up for the game. Boston's starting lineup, however, will probably include several men who have stood out on Crimson teams in the past few years...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Varity Lacrosse Team to Meet Ex-College Stars of Boston Club | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

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