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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years a bandit chieftain named Dadshah has ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Trail of Torn Paper | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Earlier in the week Aramburu stilled another feud by replacing Finance Minister Roberto Verrier, who had forecast huge trade and budget deficits and had urged stern austerity (TIME. April 1). To salvage at least part of Verrier's plan, Aramburu chose ex-Banker Adalberto Krieger Vasena. 37, who promptly vowed to work toward austerity but "with adaptations imposed by the course of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Double Crisis | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...after this year's crop of ten-and eleven-year-olds took the controversial "eleven-plus examination" (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952) that will determine whether they will be allowed to prepare for a university at a grammar school or have to be satisfied with a commercial, technical or trade school. As the youngsters recited the questions they remembered, their parents began testing each other and their friends. Then the London Daily Mail published some of the questions as a challenge to their readers. How many adults, the paper wanted to know, could get through the ordeal their children were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invention of the Devil? | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...they can interpret "directions indicated by hand or head signals," "the sign language of animals" and "traffic lights." Under the major function of "developing economic competence," they may learn about "returning things borrowed from fellow classmates promptly" (social studies), "operating audiovisual equipment" (science), "telling how a department store facilitates trade" (mathematics) and "observing 'Do It Yourself programs" (practical arts). Social studies can also include "greeting parents and other members of the family with affection," while science can mean "proper methods of ventilating home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Drivel Poured Out | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...bent, eyesore radio-TV audience with a long-frustrated urge to talk back to the commercials got a chance to do so this week-through its government. After six months of monitoring by its new radio-TV unit, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission began issuing complaints charging advertisers with using phony spot commercials on NBC, CBS and Mutual Radio (as well ajs newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Out, Damned Spot | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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