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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store and use the 44 billion cubic feet of water that the Jordan River pours annually into the Dead Sea, for example, would require an agreement between Israel, Syria and Jordan. On the Jordan, a solution to the thousand-year water problem could bring not only economic survival but peace. It is blocked by a heritage of hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: HOPE for the MIDDLE EAST | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...second method, said the Star, is the "He-Said-Five-Thousand-Words-on -Something-Else -and -Fifteen -on -McCarthy -and -It's -Up -to -Us -to-Put-It-in-Proper-Perspective . . . These stories begin: 'The Rev. So-and-So made a slashing attack on Senator McCarthy . . . tonight. The Rev. So-and-So's topic actually was "The Need for Better Choirs in Rural Churches." At the end of his hour-long address, the Rev. So-and-So said: "That goes for Senator McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daughters Ignore McCarthy | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...thousand peasants of Kwangsi province revolted and fought Communist troops for a full week after Red guards shot peasant leaders for resisting a local administrative order (Kwangsi Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Have Troubles Too | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...hundred thousand anti-Communist guerrillas were killed in recent months in southwest China (Yünnan provincial administrative council report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Have Troubles Too | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Hollywood's most valuable-but unpaid-writers are a group of Jews who turned in their stories a couple of thousand years or more ago. The Bible is a supercolossal treasury of story lines that is never likely to be equaled for surefire box office. "We always have westerns, musicals and Bible pictures," says Columbia Pictures Executive Producer Jerry Wald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scripture on Wide Screen | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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