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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otto von Mering, Jr. 2G, student chairman, will help conduct round table discussions concerning the difficulties besetting exchange study under present unsettled world conditions. The central adddess of the gathering will be delivered by Oliver J. Caldwell, of the State Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Students Convene at Tufts | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

...they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Upheaval | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...which varies, he said, with geography and intellect. For some undetermined reason, the most intellectual men are apt to be the baldest. Dr. Armattoe attended the 1947 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dundee, Scotland, and found that 55% of the male delegates showed "central baldness" and 22% "frontal baldness." Swedish intellectuals were found to be in the most desperate shape: 70% of them are bald before they are 40. In Switzerland the incidence of intellectual baldness is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Shape of Man | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Refreshment Table. Founding the university in 1348, Charles IV of Bohemia announced that he wanted the people of Bohemia, "incessantly hungering after the fruits of learning ... to find set out in our realm a table of refreshment." Charles was central Europe's first university, and one of the medieval world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Accept . . . | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week crowded 20,000 of the nation's beauty-shop operators to inspect their trade's new tools. What they saw made some of them wonder if they hadn't wandered by mistake into a house of Procrustean horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Icy Wave | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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