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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Yemen. Temporarily in charge of the reform-minded Prince Badr (TIME, June 29) while his father, the gory Imam, is off in Rome. Chances are that when papa returns shortly, things will go from Badr to worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: One Year Later | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Urrutia of late had been trying to act like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...proof, Glueck cites his own studies. Though he was ordained a rabbi at the age of 23 and today stands as spiritual leader of U.S. Reform Judaism at Hebrew Union, Glueck spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life at the Crossroads | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...concern about Communist influence, Matthews presented a far brighter picture. Items from Matthews' Page One story last week: reform, Cubans point out with irony, is not at all what the Communists were suggesting, for it is far more radical and drastic than the Reds consider wise as a first step to the collectivization they, but not the Cubans, want." But as early as April 23, Times-woman Ruby Phillips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & Cuba | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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