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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing that Hay was president of Los Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours, and we'd both live longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cavities Unlimited | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The First White | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Contagion. Some of the oil fever rubbed off on bureaucratic, bumbling YPF. "The Americans are teaching us many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Oil Boom | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capturing the Big Gun | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

BRAZILLER began only four years ago with one art book, now has 25 titles in the stores, plans to add another 15 next year. Says George Braziller, "None of us is putting the brakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Swelling Avalanche | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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