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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Spreading the Wealth | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholarships Galore | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Evans cast his collector's eye on Crane in the fall of 1957, when the company's sales were slipping from a record $394 million in 1956 to $378 million. He began buying up stock, asked to get on the Crane board, but was turned down. As Crane sales dropped to $336 million in 1958, Evans decided that the time was ripe to move, called in Proxy-Battler Alfons Landa, boss of Penn-Texas Corp., to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Heirloom Collector | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Harold Connolly, 27, the U.S.'s 1956 Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.-just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Married. Herb Elliott, 21, Australia's record-holding (3:54.5) miler; and Anne Dudley; in Nedlands, Western Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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