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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who voted for him did so out of personal respect and because they understood in private what many would not publicly admit: that the only alternative to Blundell's policy is perpetual race war. For, small as it is, Blundell's growing movement for multiracial government is the only truly hopeful sign on the East African political horizon. Blundell himself is its most effective salesman, for he is no misty-eyed liberal but a man of force and character, whose feet are firmly planted in the rich Kenya earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Man of Character | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

William Emerson, Master of Calhoun, opposed the plan on the grounds that "students candidly admit that they out classes and regret it afterwards." He believed that the majority of the faculty also opposed the change...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Yale Students May Have Unlimited Class Cuts Despite Official Denial | 3/26/1955 | See Source »

Where the Hegelian perspective seems to be subtly and profoundly assimilated in Professor Taubes' article, Mr. de Man espouses Heidegger more than he cares to admit. His article, The Inward Generation, represents an extremely ambitious attempt to define the contemporary nibilism in literature in terms of some of the tenets of Existential philosophy. But it is disquieting to be offered no more than glimpses into a mammoth question. A minute area of this question argued with sustained lyricism or philosophic incisiveness would reveal the whole in a more compelling manner that the almost breathless exposition which Mr. de Man offers...

Author: By Alexander Gelley, | Title: i.e., The Cambridge Review | 3/25/1955 | See Source »

...attache the United Nations for refusing to admit the mainland government saying "The U.N. is a world assembly, not a club with the blackball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United States Should Recognize Red China, Sundaram Maintains | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

...combat epidemics and contagious diseases. Peking now reports that since 1950 cholera has been wiped out, the incidence of plague reduced by 90%, of smallpox by 95%. Actually, the Reds' whole health program has foundered because of lack of doctors. The Reds' own press soon had to admit that aggrieved Shanghailanders had coined a tag phrase, "Three long, one short," to describe their medical care: long periods of waiting for a clinic reservation, for registration and for treatment, but a short time for diagnosis. From the Red press, too, came horrifying stories that modern drugs made in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Needle & Wormwood | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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