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...thesis is "incomplete" or "failed to cover all essential points." Back the student goes to think up worse sins he has committed. "By this time the average student would be so tired from the incessant discussions and so fed up with the dull life that he was willing to confess anything," says the escaped student. "There is no way out. If we failed to write an acceptable thesis, we would only get more indoctrination...
...column "of nothing to a nubbin of something that may or may not have happened and cabled it off at press rates just in time to catch the first whisky sour at the Carlton bar . .. We spent a month recently in Frankfurt and other parts of Germany. We must confess that not once did we hear a soldier shout 'Kommen Sie her'. . . Yet Miss Higgins, pausing briefly in her flight to elsewhere, is right in the thick of things...
Crime with Father (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV), a new mystery series, teams Rusty Lane, a police lieutenant, with Peggy Lobbin, his bouncily helpful daughter. The opening episode had a mild surprise in a murderer who was eager to confess, but soon lost its way in a maze of overacting and rattling gunshots that sounded like small boys firing cap pistols...
...scientist, of all persons, should be able to stop where knowledge stops, namely with Nature, and be bold enough to confess and to live with the great gulf of the unknown which lies beyond...
Invitation to Moscow, by Z. Stypulkowski. Gripping personal history by a Polish underground leader who refused to "confess," despite 70 days & nights of Soviet-style interrogation (TIME, June...