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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exports are up to $1.9 billion annually, with a 220% increase in minerals, themselves a $1 billion industry. At the same time, imports have been held to $1.8 billion as Australia supplies more of its own needs...
...Population has grown at the rate of 2.2% annually, helped by a liberal immigration policy that has brought nearly 1,500,000 new Australians into the land since 1947 (TIME...
Married. Gloria Davy, 28, Brooklyn-born Negro soprano who made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Aida; and Herman Penningsfield Jr., 28, Swiss financier; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...aristocratic father had wanted him brought up an agnostic. Orphaned at three, he was made a ward of Queen Victoria's court, but all the Queen's tutors and all the Queen's nannies couldn't put Bertrand's faith together. By the time he left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never...
Poised between exhortation and rebuke, America the Vincible offers unflattering answers to these and other significant questions. Author Emmet John Hughes, chief of correspondents in Time Inc.'s Foreign News Service, and sometime (1952 campaign, 1953, and 1956 campaign) speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, clearly hopes to get his fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering...