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Statistics: Location: 40 miles from Turkey, 530 miles from Greek mainland. Area: 3,572 sq. mi., twice the size of Long Island. Pop. 520,000, of which 80% is Greek, the rest nearly all Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CYPRUS: Badgered Pawn | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Benny Goodman Story (Universal) can be told in three words: dough re mi. It is not a very exciting theme, even when played by the most famed clarinet in the world. Benny (TV's Steve Allen) makes some fairly pleasant music with the help of the real E.G. on the sound track, along with Gene Krupa, Martha Tilton, Lionel Hampton, Ziggy Elman, Ben Pollack, Teddy Wilson and Kid Ory. But the licks are not quite so hot as they used to be, and the intermissions are stone cold. The only problem Goodman ever had, it would appear, was whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Facing the Music | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...McDonnell Aircraft's F101 Voodoo, a big, 45,000-lb., long-range (estimated at 1,500 mi.) bomber-escort which can also be used as an interceptor or fighter-bomber. Scheduled for operational service this year, it is powered by two J-57s, has a ceiling of 50,000 ft. plus. Speed: around 1,100 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Supersonic Centuries | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...with Inside Beverly Hills, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the small town (area, less than 5 sq. mi.; pop., 30,000) where the great, rich, famous and beautiful stars of Hollywood live and play. Unhappily, NBC showed the customers little Hollywood living and less playing. The principal commodity the community has to offer is glamour, and in its advance ballyhoo NBC shrewdly used the come-on: "Visit the homes of the stars!" But though the camera got to the front lawn, rear garden, perch and doorstep of many a noble mansion, it never quite managed to get inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Battle of Sunday at 8 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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