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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been reduced by 96%, and that, given more time and testing opportunities, they could be made 100% clean (TIME, July 8). Declared Ike: "If, ever under any circumstances," the U.S. makes another major H-bomb test, he would invite "any" other nation, including Russia, to visit the test site, "put its proper instruments in the air," and thus decide for itself the degree of U.S. H-bomb radioactivity. Moreover, once the U.S. makes its completely clean bomb, he favored sharing the information with the Russians...
...threw himself and the Times into a seven-year battle with the powerful Southern Pacific and its boss, Collis P. Huntington. The S.P. bitterly insisted on a harbor to be located at Santa Monica, where, providentially, S.P. owned the only access route; the Times pounded its fist for a site to the south, free of S.P. domination, at the coastal inlet of San Pedro. With the eager Santa Fe railroad in his corner, Otis won his impassioned fight, watched with satisfaction when the dredges moved into San Pedro and turned a few acres of mud flats into...
...years the white-supremacist fathers of Tuskegee, county seat of Macon County, Ala., have contemplated two obtrusive facts about their small (pop. 6,700), highly segregated community. Fact No. 1: about 70% (4,800) of Tuskegee's residents are Negro. Fact No. 2: the town is the site of Tuskegee Institute, one of the South's influential Negro campuses and a powerhouse in the struggle for civil rights. The fear that some of the institute's teachings, e.g., on the Negro's right to the ballot, would seep into the town of Tuskegee has been heightened...
...locked on a sound stage. Armed security guards began patrolling the area around the clock, inspecting the identification badges of all who enter. Actors were interviewed for jobs without a hint of the sponsor. For outdoor locations, the studio provided sealed vans for the cars, police cooperation at the site and even a stand-in (a Ford) for the rehearsals. All film will be kept in a safe overnight, burned if it does not come up to par, finally sent East by trusted courier so that the TV networks can get ready to show it to 170 million people...
...last two weeks the Boston Common was the site of the sixth annual Boston Arts Festival. Its success is attested by the three-quarters of a million people who flocked to its exhibits and ancillary cultural events. Included this year were competitive exhibits in architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing and graphic arts, plus several special invitational shows--a retrospective survey of the past hundred years of New England architecture, a national show of American painting and sculpture, and displays of Mexican and New England craftsmen in such fields as ceramics, jewelry, wood-turning and weaving (with periodic live demonstrations...