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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Against Common Sense." In his 72 years Niels Bohr has probably received more awards, prizes, decorations, honorary degrees and memberships than any other living scientist. In Denmark he is a Knight of the Elephant, close below the royal family in official social precedence. Although past the age for pioneering research, he is still a powerful influence among his scientist colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Knight of the Elephant | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern social problems-how a family reacts when polio strikes, how a man adjusts to blindness, the dilemmas of old age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Evangelist | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Outside the boundaries of the Lone Star Republic, where high schools and colleges alike recognize the rest of the Union, teen-age football players know no such state loyalty. Raw material from the coal mines of western Pennsylvania is as likely to turn up in Miami or Maryland as it is to be discovered at Pitt. Massillon, Ohio, a perennial producer of champions, sends its graduates all over the Big Ten. West Point's bird dogs have always found fine hunting on the playing fields of Florida; Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty collects some of his burliest backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High-Power High Schools | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...gone too far. Young people were contemptuously ignorant of all Jewish tradition and looked down on everything that happened before the turn of the century as belonging to a "submissive people." Explains Headmaster Zebulun Tuchman of Jerusalem's largest school, the Rehavia Gymnasium: "Children who reached school age after the creation of Israel had no interest in the Jewish past, in Jewish literature, in Jewish religion." At the Youth Congress in Moscow last summer, Israeli delegates were embarrassed before their fellow Jews at a Sabbath service when the youngster called up to read the week's passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Should Israelis Be Jews? | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...patient been her mother's age, with bags under her eyes, she could have had these removed for $13.88. Building up the bust, sometimes done with tissue injections of which U.S. surgeons strongly disapprove, costs $55 to $83. The Jujin surgeons' success is attested by the fact that they do 20,000 cosmetic operations a year-70% on the eyelids, 20% to build up the bridge of the nose, often with a plastic insert (which costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gaining Face in Japan | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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