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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time ago. when Jesus, dressed as a pauper, came begging alms and the villagers turned him away. Only a few women who gave him bread were saved, as well as the oven in which the bread was baked -and the oven survived as a small hermitage on the western shore of the lake near the village of Ribadelago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Thunder in the Ravine | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...large part of his navy to watch for the rebel ships. When Castro finally appeared, he was in a single motor boat, towing a barge, and flying a Mexican flag. A government coast guard cutter closed in, and the rebels, trying to escape, promptly ran aground on the shore. At this point a government fighter plane appeared and strafed the barge, so that Castro's men, numbering somewhere from fifty to a hundred, dived into the forest and dispersed. The Times happily labeled its article "Cuban Rebels Take to the Hills...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Times Out of Joint | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

According to Dr. Lougee's theory, the northern shore of this sea was a towering ice cliff. Great icebergs broke away and drifted toward the outlet, a wide estuary that led to the Gulf of Mexico. When they melted, their embedded stones dropped to the bottom, creating the many glacial deposits that have puzzled other glaciologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Icebergs Over Iowa | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that its tenant Marshall Field "had terrific 1957 figures to beat this year, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Finish | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) For the second time this year Dinah Shore presents Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the barstool-to-barstool comedy team and wittiest dialectical immaterialists in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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