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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with him and take away the automatic dishwashers and potato peelers, along with, of course, nuclear weapons, missiles and other useless innovations? He should be very pleased to have all the men he wants for parades, and their bows and arrows or muskets slung over their shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...think all they have to do is out there in the pits." Old Soldier Berry still insists on the traditional Friday night "G.I. Party" if the battery's comfortable barracks looks unscrubbed. Suspiciously, he watches such innovations as midmorning (9:30-10) coffee breaks, midafternoon Coke breaks, mechanical potato peelers, dishwashers. EDUCATION IN THE RANKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Peking's planners are able to meet this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Overdoing It | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Bent on grappling with the problem of price upcreep, President Eisenhower last week handed Vice President Nixon a job that was part plum, part hot potato. Richard Milhous Nixon's new post, his first major executive responsibility: chairman of a new Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for Economic Growth, with a franchise to 1) study the labor and management factors pushing up costs and prices, and 2) "strive to build a better understanding" of inflation and the public and private policies needed to curb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Hot Plum | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...part hot potato because it will be easy to offend both labor and business in investigating their cost-pushing practices. It is part plum because it gives Nixon an opportunity to improve his 1960 presidential prospects by doing a big and important job. The committee will be a "continuing" body, said the President's announcement, and in '60, it is safe to bet, it will be going like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Hot Plum | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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