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¶Out as Colonial Secretary stepped Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patching Up | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

That was only a drop in the flood of products that goes to the shoulder trade. Last year 11 million amateur carpenters worked on 500 million sq. ft. of plywood with 25 million power tools, burned enough electricity to light a city the size of Jacksonville, Fla. for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

At least 17 people lost their lives. It might have been much worse but for the prompt help of the U.S. Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Danube Overflows | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

When Candidate Ike Eisenhower invaded Louisville, he forgot to make any mention of Cooper in his big speech until after he sat down. He corrected his omission by jumping up to the microphone with a perfunctory endorsement. Cooper labored diligently, and when the final tally was in, Ike had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Houngans and Mambos. In Haiti Granny settled in as though she had been a missionary all her life. While Missionary Turnbull and his son labored in the mountains above Port-au-Prince to build a church, parsonage, school and dispensary, Granny went ,"on trail." Outfitted in a tropical helmet and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Granny & the Voodoo | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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