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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading outside experts to suspect that many farm communes are failing to meet their quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The Rains Came | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Air Force launched Discoverer V, putting a ton of hardware into orbit, including the 1,700-lb. second-stage rocket and a 300-lb. instrument package-a new record for U.S. satellite payloads (but still far behind Russia's 2,134-lb. Sputnik III). After 17 trips through its polar orbit, retrorockets were to plunge Discoverer V back into the atmosphere, and C-119 transport planes-trailing trapezelike devices to snare the descending parachute-were waiting 700 miles southwest of Hawaii. But Discoverer V was never heard from again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Last week's failures and semifailures obscured the overall record of U.S. rocketry to date. Totting up the figures, the U.S. could feel satisfied with results-though the figures were not quite so impressive as they sounded; e.g., a launch planned only to test a rocket's first stage, and which travels only half the full distance, is scored a "success" because it accomplishes all that it was expected to. The record, including satellite launches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missile Week | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Whatever his record this year, the best seems yet to come for Rocky. His happy combination of mental zeal and physical weal long ago caught the approving eye of Boston's great Ted Williams, who has tried to get the young muscleman to curb his passion for bashing the ball-any ball -and to wait for a good pitch. Says Williams: "Some day Rocky is going to take the league apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...plate to get a good view of the pitch, last week hit a grand-slam home run as his team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup, promptly hit 38 home runs to tie the majors' record for first-year men, and made rookie of the year. This season, as of week's end, Robinson stood second in the majors in runs batted in with 102 (the leader: Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs with 1101), fourth in the league in homers, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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