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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired as Bade County superintendent of schools in 1952, asked for a challenging assignment when he offered his services to the U.S. Point Four program. "I decided," says Johnson, "to come out to a foreign land to do some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Three Kings of Orient | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Winthrop House will conduct its Council election today, concurrently with the election for the Permanent Class Committee. Only one Winthrop sophomore submitted a Council petition before the dealine, and thus he will be declared elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Houses Move Council Election Date | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin became Russia's three musketeers of modernity. Mayakovsky's poetry was like a shot in the streets. He became the Bolshevik poet laureate; but Big Brother's embrace was crushing, and in the end he killed himself. In his book Safe Conduct, Pasternak conjures up "our State" as the "stone guest" at the funeral. Esenin (who was married for a time to Dancer Isadora Duncan) was an untutored rustic songbird, who pined away in the Soviet cage and also died by his own hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

CRIMSON editors will conduct seminars on makeup and news coverage, censorship, sports writing, features, editorials, and business management tomorrow morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Editors to Meet At 'Crimson' Conference | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

Offering his own definition of capitalism, he called it "the reliance on the pattern precipitated by the buying habits of the public as the basis for economic decision." He emphasized that "a fundamental facet of liberty is the right of people to conduct economic operations without interference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clergyman Hits 'Legal Robbery' | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

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