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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misunderstanding about propaganda may stem from 1942 and 1948 when the Planned Parent-hood League attempted to change the law through Initiative Petition and Referendum by "an act to allow physicians to provide medical contraceptive care to married mothers for the protecton of life and health." There is nothing in the law which prohibits propaganda for birth control as a medical, social or economic policy--nor indeed anything which prohibits propaganda against birth control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRTH CONTROL | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

...like a tippler who stays on the wagon for weeks only to allow himself an occasional major binge. After a long dry spell, CBS and ABC last weekend went on a big, glorious bender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Weekend Bender | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...take advantages of the lessons learnt in World War II," Frohock says, "while such colleges as Cornell, Wesleyan, and Princeton did." Cornell, for instance, has an ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Modern Language Teaching: Stagnation Since the War | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

Taking up a cigar box from your table, you open it and show it full of cigars. To convince even the most skeptical, you pass the box around and allow one or more male members of the company to first select a few cigars. After doing this you place the box upon the table in full view of everybody, and command...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...other possible revision might allow midshipmen to take the regular History Department offering given by Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, for Naval History credit. This would do away with the one-course overload which, according to Spofford, is one factor cutting down Naval ROTC enrollment...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: NROTC May Add, Replace Two Courses | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

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