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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"In 20 years," says President Jusielino Kubitschek, "Brazil is going to be the world's fourth greatest power, ahead of all others except the U.S., Russia and China. We may even be ahead of China, too." Last week, with 14 months to go in his five-year term, Kubitschek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: J.K. in a Hurry | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

The Oxford, Miss. Eagle published a public notice in turgid prose. Text: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels. Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

What Shaw also confessed about Heartbreak House was that he wrote it just as it came to him, with no formal plan. He need hardly have said so; along with largeness of conception goes a looseness of treatment, as much sprawl as size. As Shaw's characters explain themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

In the past fortnight, the networks have scrubbed four quiz shows worth an estimated $20 million in sponsors' fees-$5,000,000 each for NBC's Tic Tac Dough and CBS's Name That Tune, Big Payoff, Top Dollar. The number of quiz-panel-contest shows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Purity Kick | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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