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...weeks ago: he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that throughout his 22 months as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea he and his U.N. troops had been plagued by "a serious shortage of ammunition" (TIME, March 16). Charges of an ammunition shortage had been made before and brushed off before. Van Fleet's reputation was too solid to brush...
After a couple of years, as the novelty wore off and crowds dwindled, Planetarium Chairman Robert Coles and his staff had to brush up on their showmanship. Not only did they revamp their programs; they also went to work on the halls and lobby. Where visitors once could examine meteorites and look at telescopic pictures of the moon, they can now stop at a bank of scales to compare the weights they would register on various planets. Or they can study the newest exhibit of all: 14 black-light astronomical murals (see opposite page...
...these new effects are carefully planned to fit into new lectures, more dramatic shows. Today's audiences can even be taken on a rocket to the moon. Lecturers, of course, have had to brush up on their astrophysics to keep pace with the frightening scientific sophistication of juvenile space travelers...
...with marsh reeds as gaunt and glittering spikes, and dandelions as wildly dancing figures-all in deep green, creamy white, swirls of rich brown, red and yellow. Sometimes he takes the other tack, drains his canvas of color then his moonlight scenes become spooky tangles of waving hop vines, brush piles and squat, triangular chicken houses...
...Guatemalan government's land-reform administration last week told the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. that the government will expropriate 225,000 acres of the company's 300,000-acre plantations at Tiquisate (TIME, March 2). Included in the bite: 125,000 acres of woods and brush, 87,000 acres leased to others for cattle and crops, and 12,000 acres lent by the company to its workers to grow corn and beans...