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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tumble out were the aboriginal Kha. a little darkened by the searing heat. After them came the cooler and lighter-skinned Laotians. Anthropologists take a duller view, and say that the Laotians are simply a branch of the great Tibeto-Burman race that swept into southeast Asia over six centuries ago and conquered the local Malay tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAOS: THE UNLOADED PISTOL | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Portland senior; Son Keith, 22, and Daughters Victoria Anne, 20, and Margarite May, 18, are entering freshmen. The new plan not only halves their total tuition to $1,320; the four are also paying it themselves by working at outside jobs and starting their own boardinghouse for six Portland coeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Cut-Rate Schmidts | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shadow for Substance | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored his second victory in six days to become the Giants' first 20-game winner (20-12) since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Cowles will leave direct supervision to Editor-Publisher William J. Dorvillier, 51, a Massachusetts-born journalist, who in 1953 started a weekly newsletter in San Juan for businessmen interested in the island. The tabloid Star will be printed six days a week on the presses of El Impartial, San Juan's second Spanish daily, will be aimed more at English-speaking residents than tourists. Hoped-for circulation: 15,000 in eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth of the S/or | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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