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Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keep Antarctica Green! | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Why Write? Of all emancipation problems, education is the most pressing. Millions of Moslem women are illiterate, and see no need to be otherwise. "Why should my daughter go to school?" demanded one traditionalist Indian mother. "She need not learn to read and write. Her husband will always be by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Controlled hydrogen fusion−the key to cheap, abundant energy−is still miles away but it is getting closer. After a two-day conference at Princeton, N.J. last week, U.S. and British atomic officials made the guarded announcement that several different approaches to the fusion problem have "for some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Controlled Fusion | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

The two top officials concerned with managing the U.S. economy both spoke up for the tight-money policy. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in a speech to the World Bank-IMF meeting noted that the U.S. is "gaining in the battle of inflation," but stressed "the continuing vigil we must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The World's Crisis | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

For three tense days, management all along Bilbao's dirty Nervion River industrial complex waited to see whether, as a result of these harsh moves, the unrest would spread. But the workers were unorganized and without strike funds. On the fourth day the shipyard posted a notice: "As of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Victory for Franco | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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