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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Attack. The French army met primitive savagery with mechanized ruthlessness. French regulars, supported by tanks, planes and field guns, rolled into the Atlas ranges. In the villages of central Morocco, French Legionnaires tore down houses and even tents. One French detachment was held up .by snipers firing from a house. The troops demolished the house with .75-mm. shells, then rolled over its ruins in a heavy tank. Feeble cries came from under the ruins, so the French backed up the tank and crunched it back and forth until no more cries came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt & Revenge | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...complaint: truce inspection is a farce, for only the U.N. observes it. Not a Sabre jet leaves Korea, not a howitzer is junked or a Patton tank replaced on the U.N. side, without its being reported to the NNSC and thence, via the Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Second Battle of Wolmi | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Tanks & Survival. By contrast Chicago-born Emmanuel Viviano, 47, aims more to please than disturb, uses brilliantly stained glass to match the plumage of eagles and gamecocks. Tom Hardy, 33, a onetime sheep rancher in Eugene, Ore., takes his inspiration from animal forms. Theodore Roszak, 48, a wartime aircraft and armored tank designer, turned his back on an industrial design career to study "primitive, simple survival characteristics, for instance, how a plant survives in the U.S. Southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: METAL SCULPTURE: MACHINE-AGE ART | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Connie's Baby All week long the immense, Y-shaped hotel building in Los Angeles rattled and rang while an army of workmen struggled with crisis piled upon crisis. The air conditioning refused to work; the special refrigerators in each room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Connie's Baby | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...emphasize the U.S.'s use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, he drove out to the exhibition building which the U.S. has erected to house its atomic display for the forthcoming international atomic conference, peered down at the eerily glowing tank containing an experimental atomic pile, stared in admiration at the control panel's dials, buttons and graphs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Six Days in Geneva | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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