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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco reacted, from the moment of his arrival, as though every man, woman & child had been given a massive shot of adrenalin. Ten thousand people roared deliriously as he stepped out of his Constellation Bataan into the glare of massed floodlights at San Francisco airport. As he reached the ground, hundreds broke past police lines and surrounded him in a gabbling, jostling, hand-grabbing throng; they stayed around him as an Army band pumped unheard music, while officials pushed & shoved, and cannon banged out a 17-gun salute. It took 20 noisy minutes before the MacArthurs got into their...
...fire in the World Jungle Compound at Thousand Oaks, Calif, (which trains wild animals for the movies) last month destroyed a chimpanzee named Tamba and five others-the entire Hollywood supply of chimpanzee actors. To Columbia Producer Sam Katzman, the event was a catastrophe; Katzman's Jungle Jim series, a dependable moneymaker, requires as much animal talent as human. Until he could find a replacement, Katzman had to hold up the Jungle Jim series, in which Tamba, co-starring with Johnny Weissmuller, had played an intelligent and winsome chimpanzee...
...Truman principle as applied to Greece-if that civil war had turned out the way China's did. In this supposition, General Markos' Greek Reds sweep the mainland. The anti-Communist Greek leader, an unpopular but steadfast fellow called Apericles, retires with an army of several hundred thousand to the island of Crete. The Greek Reds, instead of going after Apericles, attack Turkey. The U.S. and the U.N. go to Turkey's aid. The war gets difficult and General Legion, the American commander of the U.N. forces in Turkey, proposes to blockade Piraeus, the port of Athens...
Economist Sédillot's own verdict on history: "Twelve thousand years, in which [Man] has discovered more about the world and very little about himself...
Since then, the lawmakers have been flooded with one of their biggest mailings in history. Committee members and Lawyer Halley got the most, but one non-committee Senator reported a thousand letters in three days, each demanding that the committee continue its work...