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...veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain on Outer Mongolia, but counted on this barren Soviet outpost's not getting enough votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expanding the Club | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...sunny morning last week 200 young men and women in faded khaki and blue denim uniforms filed into a warehouse on a barren hill west of the Formosan city of Taichung. They were there to begin their college education. Standing before piles of shipping crates, President Beauson Tseng, 61, welcomed them to a unique educational enterprise: Tunghai University, the first Christian university in Formosa's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pioneers | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...main reasons the Israelis fought so hard to conquer the barren Negeb in the Palestinian war was that they were sure they could find oil there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Promise in the Promised Land? | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...know a healthy mind when they see one. Even the definitions of mental health are vague and still the subject of argument. Last week members of the American Psychological Association were pondering a positive definition of emotional health, advanced by the University of California's Dr. Frank Barren. The definition was unusual because it sounded so usual. The factors listed by Psychologist Barren as indicating good mental health might have been cited by any old-fashioned moral philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Mental Health? | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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