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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibet. As he himself explains, "I just wanna do one cosmic thing before I turn completely middle-aged and start making the same noise as all the other bees." For a while Charlie's Smith College girl gives him able support. But then she decides she would prefer to get married. "It might be dull," she says, "but it's definitely the coming thing...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Questing the "Cosmic" | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

...Kaiser, Hitler fired him, made submarine-warring Karl Doenitz grand admiral of the German fleet. Following Hitler's defeat, Raeder was tried as a top war criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment. Said proud, glory-loving Raeder in a special plea to the Allied Control Council: "I prefer a soldierly death sentence to languishing in prison." Last week, after languishing in Berlin's Spandau jail for nine years, Erich Raeder, 79, and suffering from hardening of the arteries, was set free on a clemency order signed by the four Allied powers. Wearing the same dark blue serge suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old Crimes | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster proves out as its friends hope, it will add a new dimension to long-range air warfare. It will need no elaborate, fixed and vulnerable bases. Instead, it can establish itself in any sheltered body of water within 1,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: SeaMaster | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...proposed broadcasts would, on the other hand, always have at least a small audience in the College area. Students who simply dislike watching football games, who have a long paper to write over the weekend, or who, especially on a rainy day, might prefer to remain in their rooms with a date and a drink, all might like to tune in at some time during the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nowhere on Your Dial | 9/29/1955 | See Source »

...farmers are getting their fair share of America's unprecedented prosperity. We shall continue to explore every possible program which will remedy the inequity . . ." Later he added: "The showdown battle in 1956 will be between those who want to nationalize and socialize basic American institutions and those who prefer the Eisenhower Republican program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Readjustment | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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