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The Seymour Council improved some of the service projects, but on the whole, it did not make use of its inheritance. At times it seemed determined to destroy it. For the first few months of its existence it devoted nearly all its attention to internal house-keeping matters and to...

Author: By Joesph M. Russin, | Title: Apathy, Delusions of Power Plague HCUA | 2/25/1964 | See Source »

In Winthrop's Guest Suite, however, the day's events couldn't have seemed more remote. Visiting E.H. Carr, the noted British historian who is spending six weeks at Harvard, was like stepping onto a very white, very soft cloud and drifting off into a sky of milk. As he...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: E.H. Carr | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

Buoyed by a rising economy, protected by destiny against the ravages of war and stimulated by a never-ending influx of capital from less fortunate lands, Switzerland has long sat rich and contented in the heart of Europe. Switzerland's economic life, in fact, has ticked along for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Alarm Against Foreigners | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

But that era is over, and Germany's construction boom has slowed down: the industry contented itself with only a 3% increase in business last year. Hochtief grew twice as fast as that by rapidly expanding its foreign enterprises, raised its sales to $150 million last year. Says Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Above, Below & Everywhere | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Goldwater went to New Hampshire, where he presumably will meet Rocky in next March's presidential primary, to speak at a memorial dinner for the state's late Republican Senator Styles Bridges. There 1,100 diners paid $10 apiece to help endow the Styles Bridges chair in Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Finger of Fate? | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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