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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...shut down Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Vermont. NATO was warned that its tactical air strength in Europe might be cut back by three Air Force F-100 nuclear fighter-bomber wings, or 225 planes. The deployment in Europe of the Thor and Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic-missile squadrons would be cut back by one Thor squadron from eight to seven, leaving four IRBM squadrons in Britain, two to be installed in Italy and one in Turkey, and scratching plans for Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Budget Blues | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Sergeant Charles Chennault, as comrades in arms. He is assistant operations officer of a squadron in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...tropical areas, where protein starvation is most acute, cows are scarce and do not thrive. Last week, in London's industrial East End, British Inventor Israel Harris Chayen of British Glues & Chemicals, Ltd. proudly displayed a climateproof mechanical cow. Chewing its cud with the rumble of a bomber squadron, the 50-ft. machine briskly chomped up vegetable matter at one end, spewed out at the other edible, nutritious protein in the form of a flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mechanical Cow | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...screen glamour boy (Kid Galahad), who won his wings as a fighter pilot (57 missions, seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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