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...local repairman turned down Brown's call for help. "We'd be glad to come out.'' he explained. "But those kids out there can fix them." The students now maintain all the school's equipment, have in stalled an intercom system and a special burglar alarm in the boys' washroom to keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than any of their projects is the enthusiasm the program has aroused. The students have requested so many scientific books from the University of Florida library that the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Give Them Their Heads | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...right hand. Handling the heavy sphere as gently as a waiter balancing a tray of champagne, he raises his left hand as if he were conferring a blessing on the spectators. His blue eyes narrow, he inches his left foot back toward the center of the circle like a burglar feeling his way down off a porch roof in the dark. Suddenly he ducks low. His eyes squint almost shut, and with a furious burst of energy he scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across the circle. The shot seems to explode from his hand to the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Home Run. In Antwerp, Belgium, surprised while looting a house, Burglar Raymond Raets fled, scrambled over a ninefoot wall, found himself inside the Antwerp prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...deterrent H-bombers in Britain and the U.S. As the Manchester Guardian put it this week: "General Gruenther's screen across Europe is too weak to stop an assault by Soviet forces in East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled his own unpopular conscription bill through the German Parliament, and he let it be known at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Kind of War? | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Hard Times. In Grand Rapids, Mich., police looked for the burglar who broke into Hendricks Supply Co., knocked the dial off the safe but failed to open it, broke into an office next door but failed to force the strongbox, rifled a cigarette machine in a nearby service station, made off with a few coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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