Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfied with winning their independence from France and Spain a year ago, some of Morocco's political leaders are agitating to chip off a slice of northwest Africa roughly the size of Western Europe. The land between Morocco and Senegal is mostly sand, but there are underground riches to be tapped. For the story of the rebel leader who hates the French because he was once denied a tax collector's job, see FOREIGN NEWS, Empire of Sand...
FOREIGN AID ($4.4 billion). Bridges suggests saving $950 million by taking the average percentage slice that Congress has knifed out of presidential aid requests over the past four years: 21.6%. Atop that, he wants to eliminate programs totaling $225 million which he considers not in keeping with "the declared and enacted policy of Congress." e.g., aid to Communist Yugoslavia. The N.A.M. calls for an aid slash of $2.2 billion, or 50%, the Chamber of Commerce for a somewhat less drastic $1.5 billion...
...Hazlitt Brerinan's scripts, the Earp show uses Stuart N. Lake's biography, whose critics may have nicked it (said one: "Fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw") but have riot killed it as a major sourcebook for Westerns since 1931. Says Sisk: "We've got to slice the truth pretty close to make it last, but we stick closely to the biographical details...
...week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns. TIME'S Music editor listens to the vinyl outpourings, from two dozen record companies, selects the best and most interesting items for review...
Different Pitch. This was fast-breaking basketball, a cut above the collegiate brand and only a thin slice below the deadly precision of the best pros. Technically, at least, the players of the National Industrial Basketball League are amateurs...