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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article dealing with our difficulties with space expresses the kind of realism I like to see. It strikes me as fantastic almost beyond belief that American missilemen are not allowed just $105 million to speed up Saturn tests four years; yet American farmers are given some $7 billion to increase the food bills of the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Reader Tranter is almost right: Artist Safran did show a one-way street-and says no one yet has been able to control bicycle riders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...twelve months since the U.S. voluntarily suspended its testing of nuclear weapons, the public debate on this serious switch in defense policy has been almost nil. But last week, virtually on the test-ban anniversary (midnight Oct. 31), the issue burst into politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Nuclear-Test Debate | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...this hypothesis seemed inadequate to explain Peking's increasingly reckless disregard for Indian opinion, Asian good will, or Khrushchev's caution. Red China seemed spoiling for a fight-almost as if determined to convict Nehru's India as pliable and easily frightened, or else compel it to abandon its prestigious posture as the great uncommitted neutralist power in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Dragon's Breath | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...effort to treat the student as an individual, Sarah Lawrence has developed its progressive educational policy, a policy that makes it almost unique among woman's colleges. No reported grades, no examinations, no lectures, and no required courses--these are the extremes towards which the policy gravitates. Until very recently, all four extremes were realized...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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