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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Johnson knew very well that many of his turn-away audiences would come out to see a stuffed whale or Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Pro | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

When the time came for Truman's full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disenchanted Evening | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The economy of Senegal, which produces some of the most beautiful women and best fighting men in Africa, is almost wholly dependent on peanuts, which France buys at 25% over world prices. Neighboring Sudan is even poorer. But the Federation of Mali, said its first Premier, Modibo Keita, 44, supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH COMMUNITY: Organized Friendship | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The pattern was repeating itself throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, four Chinese businessmen were shot to death in public on suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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