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...officially Premier, intended originally to steer a noncommittally neutral course between East and West. He still may, but lately, possibly because the U.S. and France have been delivering their $55 million in development aid on schedule while the Chinese Communists have made good on just a fraction of the $22.9 million worth of cement, steel and textile shipments promised for 1957, his press has been outspokenly antiCommunist, and Cambodia has been voting more and more with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: Signs of Progress | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...home. Originally designed for the palaces of the rich, it now makes ideal hi-fi listening, but for years American record buyers ignored the fact, turned the volume up and delightedly let the high decibels of opera and symphony beat them down. Chamber music accounts for only a small fraction of U.S. classical record sales, but there are some signs that the situation may be changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Records: Chamber Music | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...sufficient intensity to damage them. The four beams came to a sharp focus at the exact part of the ansa lenticularis on the left side (controlling right-side movements) that Dr. Meyers wanted to destroy. The ultrasound dose lasted only 1.8 seconds. The patient was moved twice, a minute fraction of an inch, so that two more pinhead-size parts of the ansa lenticularis were destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ultrasound Surgery | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...that after a few days the patients stopped responding to the treatment and soon relapsed into their former state. Harvard University's Dr. Mark D. Altschule guessed that this was because of big beef protein molecules in the extract. He set himself the job of isolating the potent fraction in the pineal glands from this kind of protein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back to the Third Eye? | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...billion-a-year conventional power market, 50 to 60 firms plan to make reactor equipment. AEC expects few of them to survive. Said the commission's Reactor Development Director W. Kenneth Davis: "During the next few years the business will not support 50 companies or even a fraction of them. We could have a few good companies or a lot of mediocre or bad ones. I favor a few good ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Freeze on Uranium | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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