1. How to Stop Inflation
(News/Blog)

... organ like Life magazine. In fact, looking recently at a well-preserved issue of Life from 1959 I came across a full page advertisement from Met Life. But the ad in question didn't talk at all about the ...

2. Met Life On Inflation, Circa 1959
(News/Blog)

The following text ran as a full page advertisement for Metropolitan Life in the March 30, 1959 issue of Life magazine: There IS A Cure For Inflation To most people, inflation means that it costs more ...

3. The Aral Sea - High and Dry
(Archive/Features)

... Review. “In 1959, under General-Secretary Nikita Khrushchev’s self-sufficiency plan,” Schaar wrote, “the Russians diverted the courses of the Amu Syr and Amu Darya rivers, the Aral Sea’s two main feeders, ...