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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operations Arleigh ("Thirty-One Knot") Burke, 57, got a third term; General Thomas Dresser White, 57, got a second term as Chief of Air Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: General Lem | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Nyasaland. In the third and most primitive of the three federal states, the days were full of the sounds of new detention camps being built to hold African supporters of the volatile Dr. Hastings Banda (see box). Already 560 were being detained. Sir Roy has yet to reveal the evidence that there had ever been a black plot to massacre the whites-the major excuse in the first place for the wave of repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Which Way to Go? | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Joe Louis, 44, heavyweight champion (1937-48), who recently formed a film company to do a TV series based on his life; and Martha Jefferson, 46, Los Angeles attorney, still a law partner of her previous husband; his fourth marriage, third wife (the first Mrs. Louis remarried him after a divorce) ; in Winterhaven, Calif., March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Jaeckel last paid a dividend in 1945). But fellow merchants figured he would soon figure out a way to fit Gunther-Jaeckel into his spreading operation. Pursuing a policy of aggressive expansion, his Bonwit Teller already has two suburban branches operating in Manhasset, L.I. and White Plains, N.Y., a third projected (in Millburn, N.J.), plus stores in Chicago, Cleveland and Boston. For the present, Hoving will double up on some advertising and promotional costs, knock out a wall or two to throw the main Bonwit store and Gunther-Jaeckel together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: No. 3 for Hoving | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Although this will be the third smallest national crop planting, it probably means the biggest output of crops ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bigger Surpluses Ahead | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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