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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitalize on the inherent desire of people all over the world that things should be done, wherever they can be done, by private enterprise?" This fundamental question was raised by David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, now a consultant to foreign governments on their own development programs. Along with such far-reaching solutions as the Magna Carta of investment capital's rights proposed by Germany's Hermann Abs and the world-investment-guarantee plan proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon, the delegates had some ideas of their own on how to speed private investment. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: NEW IDEAS FOR INVESTMENT | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Michael Weighing the Souls (opposite), a side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SPANISH ROMANESQUE; ERA OF AWE | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...little town of Calipatria (pop. 2,500), a cluster of small stores and business buildings surrounded by the truck farms of California's broiling Imperial Valley, has always had one claim to fame: it is located 184 ft. below sea level, and fondly calls itself "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere." Last week Calipatria got a raise in stature, if not elevation, as it demonstrated how far the Imperial Valley has come since the old days-and Pearl Harbor days-when inflamed feelings against Japanese settlers brought persecution and bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: High-Flying Flag | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Among the oldtime Japanese residents of the valley were Takeo Harry Momita and his wife Shizuko Helen, who operated a series of little drugstores from 1927 until 1942 when they-along with 110,000 West Coast Japanese and their American-born youngsters-were herded into Army relocation camps for the duration. In 1945 they came back to the valley amid uneasiness and tension, scraped up money for another store, entered their children in public schools. When they moved to Calipatria, things began to get better; the youngsters began to run off with honors in school, and son Milton was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: High-Flying Flag | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Shades Valley High, Birmingham Arkansas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: WHAT MAKES THEM GOOD? | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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