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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powder, and fresh snow at night to top it off. Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere was the Andes ski boom growing faster than in Chile, as the crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ANDES: Up to Ski | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

What everyone had long known about Cuba was confirmed in detail last week: Fidel Castro has turned his country into an invasion base. The proof came in Manhattan, when a group of disillusioned young Americans of Puerto Rican descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Invasion Base | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Tepee is the brainchild of young (33) Physicist William John Thaler (pronounced Thayler) of the Office of Naval Research. Thaler's primary field is nuclear weapons effects. But two years ago, he had a sudden notion that certain characteristics of the behavior of radio waves might be the key to a simple and reliable long-range detection system. Since both the ionosphere and the surface of the earth will deflect radio signals, a transmitter can angle its beam upward and the broad waves will carom back and forth between ground and sky as they proceed to circle the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tepee | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...their annual series of races off the New England coast, a lean, shy sailor out of Marblehead, Mass, tagged along with his new sloop to see what she could do. Last week the fleet was marveling at the record of the 40-ft., plump-breasted Robin and young (32) Designer-Owner Frederick Emart Hood: four wins in seven races and an overall first-season record of eight wins in twelve races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marblehead Marvel | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Young Getty believes U.S. trustbusters will consent to the merger, since Skelly and Tidewater operations overlap in very few areas. More important, the U.S. oil business is so big that Tidewater and Skelly account for less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Getty on the Go | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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