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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full colonel at 31, and seemed destined for big things in the Red army. A 1953-55 tour of duty as a liaison officer with U.S. forces in Frankfurt gave him his first look at another kind of life. Assigned as military attache to Rangoon in 1957, Stryguine seemed anxious to make friends with Westerners in Burma. He did; but his new friends noticed that a certain tenseness gnawed at his easy affability. Said one: "I felt from the first this man was not the usual Soviet conformist. He had eyes and a brain; he saw things and understood them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: No Escape | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Against Whom? As Nehru, dressed in white cotton, mounted the Prime Minister's bench, anxious citizens jammed the public galleries, formed queues into the street. In a dampening speech, Nehru stood fast on his policy of neutrality and nonalignment in pacts, even knocked down suggestions that India join Pakistan for the united defense of the subcontinent (TIME, May 11). "We do not propose to have a military alliance with any country, come what may, and I want to be clear about it," Nehru said. He was all for settling mutual problems and living in peace with Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Lone Fireman | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Bardeen added that he was anxious to clear the matter with Dean Watson. Watson, who will make any decision, was unavailable for comment last night. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and advisor to the HLU, said yesterday that the wording should be interpreted by the Dean's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Says Constitution Follows College Rules | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...anxious to have English 10 or its equivalent required of all concentrators again, but the skip-stop survey it afforded students has not been replaced with a course of similar range and viewpoint. Non-concentrators are now inclined to take survey courses in American literature, which are abounding, rejecting English literature as too specialized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...been "stripped of ... empire, economically and physically sapped . . ." by wars - in which, may I remind you, you first bled us white with "cash-and-carry" and then joined in largely to protect your investment in our future -are we to understand that you would expect us to be as anxious as the Gadarene swine to plunge to perdition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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