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Less happy was the Gaming Control Board. Although the Royal Nevada was licensed to gamble only until the last minute of 1957, it was still gambling last week, had not yet paid $30,000 for a new license. The board will push the original cheat charge, ask the Tax Commission to suspend the Royal Nevada for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Eight Days to Win | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Cooperation, not competition, is the spirit of group dynamics. The only way a person can 'cheat' in a group dynamics situation is to fail to cooperate." ¶ "As the group develops a strong 'we feeling' and gains experience in the group process, the teacher moves more and more out of the function as a leader. The ultimate is when the teacher is no longer the leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Old We Feeling | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...struck down by the inarticulate evangel of the new. Muses Wilson's Teddy boy in a weird finale: "See, it's like I said when I see red I don't know my own strength. And it's all, all of it, a bloody cheat and I don't know what I shall do. But if there's questions, I'll be all right, see, because what's an old bloke like that want talking to me on Hampstead Heath at one o'clock in the morning. That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brilliant Gossip | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...spinning started even before the Senate confirmed him. Clashing head-on with conflict-of-interest laws ("If I had come here to cheat, by God, I wouldn't be here"), Engine Charlie battled the Senate Armed Services Committee for ten days before agreeing to sell his General Motors stock (39,470 shares then worth $2,500,000; current market value: $4,500,000). It was from word leaked out of the secret Senate confirmation hearings that Wilson reaped headlines and outraged diatribes for one of the most famous remarks never made: "What's good for General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Charlie, Grinning | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...just another awkward young girl idly dreaming of escape. But quickly and chillingly it becomes clear that Angel is one of those rare and frightening people who take their dreams literally, cling to them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved, and of owning Paradise House, the stately manor where her aunt is a lady's maid. While the Walter Mittys of this world use such dreams only as cushions, Angel uses hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Escape | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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