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President Eisenhower has failed to disguise the grim reality of Russian scientific advancements. Intending to maintain public complacency rather than risk alarm, he dispensed a warm shower of emotional confidence. His specious argument and vague exhortations should only draw attention to the weakness of his remedies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sacrifice for Action | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

First stop was before the four dramatic new buildings replacing the squalid hodgepodge of the capital's old Lagunilla Market. Starting strong, Ruiz Cortines came smiling through a confetti shower, visited each of the buildings, with a mariachi band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Presidential Marathon | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Seven Zulus died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tribal Instinct | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...helium nucleus, most powerful particle ever trapped, crashed into a 200-lb. stack of 300 silver bromide photographic plates suspended beneath a balloon that drifted last fall for eight hours at 116,000 ft. over Minnesota. The particle touched off a shower of electrons that streaked the plates with an expanding forest of lines. One puzzling fact: the intruder bumped into two silver or bromine nuclei, creating six mesons in the first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Potent Particle | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower in a hammock, intestinal irrigation "drop by drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gurgle, Gargle, Guggle | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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