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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall a story in TIME'S Education section called "The Spinning Eyes" (TIME, Oct. 18), the story of Alan Maxwell Palmer, onetime advertising man, who lost a hand in World War II, went to Mexico City to live, and then found that he had permanently lost his sight after undergoing a series of brain tumor operations. During his lonely hours of boredom, Palmer conceived a project that he thought would help other blind people, particularly those among the uncounted thousands of illiterates all over Mexico...
...Recordmaker Peter Bartok (son of the late great Béla): "The listener is a damn nuisance." Nuisance or not, today's listener is part of a cultural revolution. The sound that comes through his speakers is not living music; its impact is no longer assisted by the sight of performers struggling with abstractions, nor by the massed reaction of a concert-hall audience. What this will do to musical taste is not clear; some think it will freeze on presold "great" classics, others that it will incline to spectacular moderns. But the important thing is that people...
Visiting Pierre S. du Pont's fabulous Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square, Pa. in 1926. President Calvin Coolidge passed in Yankee silence among exotic ixora, agapanthus, orchids, vanilla vines and breadfruit, finally spotted a familiar sight. Said the President: "Bananas...
...while, it seemed as if Santee's early speed might pay off. Nielsen was rattled at the sight of his rival pulling away, shifted into high and ran his heart out closing the gap. Only Dwyer, striding smoothly some 30 yards back, was wise enough to run his own race. His discipline made Santee look like a schoolboy...
...peak in sight. Despite the upswing in uranium strikes (TIME. Jan. 31), AEC needs still more ore, estimates that most known deposits will be exhausted by 1962. Said Johnson: "A high rate of discovery will be required to maintain scheduled production levels." Although at least twelve ore deposits containing 100.000 or more tons each have been discovered since 1948 (v. three up to then), mining has climbed even faster. Seven years ago the U.S. had 15 small mines with a total of 50 employees; now it has more than 800 sizable mines with more than 4,000 employees...