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...honors concentrators are required to take at least six courses in Arch. Sci. and related fields. Honors students must take eight such courses, and also pass a three-hour written examination, as well as an oral exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architectural Sciences | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

Here & there Shulman throws in a few new twists. Too often, however, the jokes just lie there; and the arch, in humor as in feet, can be terribly painful when it falls flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fallen Arch | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Like many another U.S. businessman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman Paul W. Litchfield was eager to start producing in Europe's prized hard-currency markets. The Netherlands was out of the question, since Litchfield's arch rival, Goodrich, already had a plant there. So was Belgium, which has two tire plants of its own. With the doleful expression of a jilted suitor, Rubberman Litchfield turned his eyes to the tiny (pop. 300,000) Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Goodyear's Deal | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Promptly at 9 o'clock, "Mike" Johnson, 45, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of waterfront crime (TIME, May 16), walked into the office of courtly, white-haired Executive Editor Keats* Speed, 70, editorial boss for 33 years of the staid, arch-conservative Sun. Said Speed in anguished accents: "I am taking you into my confidence because I have a nasty job to do. You must not breathe a word of this. We are being sold today, and I am an absolute wreck." Speed ordered stunned Reporter Johnson to lock himself in the musty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in the Antiques Room | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Torchlight & Pickpockets. Baedeker's supreme duty was to take the tourist by the hand and lead him gently through the pitfalls of foreign lands. Thieves of all kinds were among Baedeker arch foes; speaking of Lourdes shrine, Baedeker says: "The torchlight procession presents a fairylike scene (Beware of pickpockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Two-Star Civilization | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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