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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the final curtain fell, applause rang out loud & long. From the spectators a voice called: "Garcia Lorca!" In response, the curtain rose on an empty stage. Everyone understood, and cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Window Closes | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: To the Barricades! | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...putting himself in the customer's shoes-and giving the customer what he wants-Ling Warren has helped expand Safeway Stores Inc. into a grocery chain second only in dollar volume to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Last year Safeway rang up a net profit of $14.4 million, highest in its 24-year history, even though gross sales of $1 billion were down 7% from the year before because of a reduction in food prices and the number of Safeway stores. But Warren doesn't intend to let the gross stay down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Customer's Man | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Yale students had a way of finding out where salty Professor Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Finished Engines | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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