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Store owners patched up bullet holes, erased the scars of fire and reopened their shops after a week-long general strike...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: House Begins Drive to Restore Slashes in Ike's Defense Budget; Fignole Restores Order in Haiti | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...Soviet tests (which one Japanese scientist declares to be more than twice as "dirty" as U.S. H-bomb explosions) temporarily focused Japanese wrath on Russia rather than Britain. The fallout, increased by a week-long drizzle of rain, was the heaviest ever recorded in Japan, and the government broadcast a warning: "Cover all open wells; do not drink rain water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOMIC AGE: Regrets & Realities | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Triumph. Mohammed returned to Morocco in triumph. All Morocco went on a week-long celebration. Berbers staged feasts in crenelated mud-walled casbahs. In the cities Arabs paraded with flags and portraits of the Sultan. In factories and mines, work stopped. In the hills, guerrillas calling themselves the National Liberation Army looted French plantations, murdered rich Moroccan farmers who had sided with the French. In the subsequent panic, thousands of Frenchmen packed up and fled to France, taking with them capital roughly equivalent to Morocco's whole annual budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Man of Balances | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...week-long blood drive will begin today at the University Lutheran Church instead of Memorial Hall where it has been usually held. The Lutheran Church is located behind the IAB at the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Opens Spring Blood Drive Today | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...that "bigness is encroaching on Main Street"). The Keef's arrival in Libertyville prompted a new decree by Jim Finnegan: henceforth, Estes will be welded to Adlai with a hyphen, thereby assuring the proper identity of the Stevenson-Kefauver "team." This week teammates and staff climbed aboard a chartered DC-7, headed out on a week-long trip. Purpose: 1) to take regional readings from politicos in the Southwest, Northwest, Middle West and the South; 2) to establish better the identity of the hyphenated pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: All Aboard | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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