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The recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Stable Anniversary | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Back at the icehouse. Chief Norman staked out five men. At 10:30 p.m. a man slid out of the shadows, looked cautiously up and down, then snaked an arm under the icehouse loading dock. Out jumped the cops. "Who-me?" cried the flustered man. "Why, I'm just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Lure | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

In Damascus, thousands of Palestine Arab refugees snaked through the streets chanting: "Let Hussein die like the dog his grandfather!" (King Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Backfire? | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

One morning in late April of 1945, a military convoy snaked its way through a thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Gold of Dongo | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

If one beam of light can be transmitted along a glass tube, why not transmit detailed images along the same path? The problem has steadily resisted the best efforts of optical researchers. But now the University of Rochester's Indian-born Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, 30, has succeeded by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picture Tube | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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