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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head to toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Deadlier than the Male | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution sparked by Mies van der Rohe swept into power after World War II, Alvar Aalto (rhymes with hall-toe) dropped out of sight, seemed close to becoming architecture's forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PRICKLY INDIVIDUALIST: FINLAND'S AALTO | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Custodian Montgomery lunged for Orgeron. Orgeron slipped his toe out. The suitcase fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: That Man Has Dynamite | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Hollywood set, Actor-Singer Pat Boone, 25. took a swift kick at what seemed a papier-mache rock, but he should have taken it for granite. The rock was real. Boone broke a toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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