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In the 65 years since James W. Blake composed his hurdy-gurdy verses, New York City's population has more than doubled. Today 7,795,471 New Yorkers and 370,000 commuters trip fantastically over one another on sidewalks and subway platforms, particularly in the morning and evening rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Keep 'Em Out | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

¶ In Tacoma, Wash., pudgy Dave Beck, 64, onetime president of the Teamsters, was convicted of income tax evasion involving $240,000 owed the Federal Government. A jury of eight men and four women deliberated 23 hours, 59 minutes, finally found Beck guilty on six separate counts, were praised by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Kings in Check | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Back of the aggravation was a history of near financial disaster which began three years ago with Bishop Theas' approval of costly plans for a new underground basilica in Lourdes. To pay for the $2,800,000 structure, the bishop borrowed from bankers against future donations from pilgrims. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Costly Basilica | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Realists point out that one reason why Ecuador moved ahead so fast was that it had far to go. Per capita income, though it almost doubled in a decade, is still only $164 a year. Too much business and industry is run as an old family affair, grossly inefficient, protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Decade of Progress | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Prado took over an economy that was (and is) basically strong and growing, if temporarily tormented. Its free-enterprising policies have brought $970 million in foreign capital, and between 1948 and 1957, gross national product almost doubled. At first Prado hiked wages and the budget too abruptly, and the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Working Alliance | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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