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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, peace seemed finally in sight in the long-drawn war between the Dutch and the Indonesian Nationalists. In Batavia, the U.N. Commission for Indonesia announced a cease-fire agreement. Worn down by Nationalist guerrilla fighting and worried by Communist advances in Asia, the Dutch had finally given in to the stern resolution of the Security Council, condemning their "police action" last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: *High Hopes & Bitter Tea | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...drew support from home in her pleas for privacy. Said the London Times: "It would be a fair concession ... if a closed season were now agreed upon; and the Princess will return better for her holiday if she can be treated as a young woman quietly enjoying her first sight of an ancient land, and not as a peep show." Cracked the London News Chronicle: "Perhaps she is enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...thing is fairly certain. There is no defensive weapon in sight against rockets like the V-2 that strike down from above the atmosphere at perhaps 3,500 m.p.h. General McNarney admits that a missile fast enough and clever enough to intercept them is years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin Pays | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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