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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face" (beards). Thus it seems to have become much commoner in the last generation, is estimated to have killed at least 100 Fore in each recent year. It is unknown elsewhere in New Guinea or in the rest of the world. This has led Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas to suspect a genetic defect, with at least a hereditary tendency to the disease. But NIH pathologists at Bethesda have found widespread nerve cell destruction in brains of six kuru victims, suggesting that the cause may be some kind of poisoning. So an intensive, detailed study of everything that the Fore people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...nonowners of a washer, TV set, refrigerator, etc., my family and I are free souls and glad of it. I suspect other struggling young college couples may join us in feeling decidedly smug towards the poor gadget-ridden middle class. I am beginning to firmly believe that poverty is bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...French side of the story, a CBS crew headed by Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun got pictures of the French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European residents who built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Focus on Algeria | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers who may suspect at this point that Author Rand's intention is satire could not be more mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Miami convention had been selected unconstitutionally. One day later a court of appeals decision struck down the temporary injunction because it "had gone beyond the necessities of the situation," but left the way open for a post-election challenge of election procedures if the rank and filers still suspect unconstitutionality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brickbats at the Threshold | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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