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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrist in California believes that insanity is nothing but a breakdown in ability to communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crazy, Huh? | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...possible, therefore, to tell how individual colleges made out, since no breakdown of scores has been made along that line. University authorities said they did not know yet themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Not Hit by New Draft Rule | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

Most of the noteworthy news events of the past summer had this in common: they lacked the quality of reasonable tolerance which characterizes a liberal education. The polemical breakdown of the Kersong truce talks in-korea, the bluff and bluster that have marked the negations over Iranian oil, the wild demonstrations at the Communist youth festival in Berlin, and the continuing hysteria over "subversive elements" that marks certain elements of public and legislative opinion do not create a good atmosphere for studying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Applied Knowledge | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...Defense Department last week reported 340 more U.S. battle casualties in Korea (including 75 killed in action), bringing total U.S. battle casualties to 80,400. The breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: U.S. WAR CASUALTIES | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Curtains for Kaesong? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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