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First measurements came from radio sensitive Japan, where radioactivity had sunk to a comfortably low winter level after last fall's Russian tests in Novaya Zemlya. In December the index figure was an insignificant 6.77 millimicrocuries.* Radioactivity stayed low during January and February, but since then it has climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fallout with the Daffodils | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Only a fortnight ago, Bolling thought he had a chance to win, was busy attracting liberal pledges by calling Albert a lip-service liberal who was weak on civil rights. To make telephone calls on his behalf to Democratic leaders, Bolling had enlisted a notable Democrat from his home district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bitter Withdrawal | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Most notable surge is in homebuilding. New private housing starts in the U.S., which in recent weeks have peaked at an estimated annual rate of about 1,400,000, are expected to total about 1,300,000 for 1961 as a whole. In 1962, with buyers encouraged by more jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Hardening the Soft Spots | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Such ringing conviction was the last thing his critics expected when Home took office last year. In fact, some were unkind enough to hold that his life had peaked 39 years before at Eton, where Classmate Cyril Connolly remembers him as "the graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HER MAJESTY'S NEW REALIST | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Captain | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

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