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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the U.S., Houdini bolstered his mounting publicity by breaking out of still more jails. Onstage, he walked through brick walls, even though the walls were set on a carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Escapist | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roughing It in Russia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

In the Irish press proper, taut censorship is maintained vigilantly by the newsmen themselves, from country correspondents, who will fail to phone in a story because it "isn't nice," to city editors, who generally accept all "conventions," do not think of them as actual censorship. All of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Blushless Press | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

At last the patient gets to see a physician. The man in white has the case history and lab reports before him. At the plaintive, immemorial question, "What do you think the trouble is, Doc?", the physician simply presses more buttons. The recorded data are fed into an electronic computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Automation | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The tea growers launched their campaign without even consulting Dr. Ugai. Said one merchant: "Favored from ancient times, tea now stands the test of the atomic age as a safeguard against one of the most dreaded byproducts of that age." But one thing was missing: evidence that what works in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tea & the Atom | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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