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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: Dulles. The President then underwent some thoroughly intensive questioning on a troublesome issue, the LIFE article about Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' views of how full-scale war was averted...
...Dulles eyed them with a slight smile. "I have a brief statement to make," he began, "about a matter which I judge to be of current interest." He noted that an article in LIFE, which had said that the U.S. policy of strength had deterred the Communists from full-scale war in Korea, Indo-China and the FormosL Strait "has attracted much comment." He then read a statement...
Students using Lamont lately have been complaining that some of their books are being stolen. However, the heyday of book thievery on a large scale, like horse thievery, seems to have disappeared. Back in 1932, the library robbers were not content to take an occasional book from a desk...
Today, public fancy has turned to classical and pre-classical styles. Ever since World War II, the directors of Milan's huge (cap. 3,200) La Scala have tried to find a showcase for small-scale operas. First they bought property directly behind the stage, on the Via dei Filodrammatici (Street of the Amateur Actors), where once the carriages of the great prima donnas were parked. Plans were made to remodel a small apartment building into a tiny theater. Eventually, after five years of labor and some half a million dollars, La Piccola Scala (cap. 600) was finished...
Just as homeowners in 1955 pushed their living scale up a notch, so U.S. businessmen were no longer content with existing facilities. In their steady drive to produce more, they laid out $28 billion for new plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said...