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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Harris, a backer of Federal aid to education, wants government and state help in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and capital outlays, and he doesn't fear any resulting threats to academic freedom. "British experience shows us that aid is possible without control of college educational policies," he explains...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: U. S. Higher Education Faces Crisis | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...most important in the world, "for they are the center of man's hope . . . They signify that the peoples of the world are of one mind in their determination to solve their common problems . . ." He also called for adoption of the U.S. plan for international atomic energy control, which Russia has been blocking. It was a nice celebration, and deserved the world's earnest best wishes; it would need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Four-Year-Olds | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that a lion tamer cannot control an animal as docile as an elephant is the worst of insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Back to Borneo | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...first peacetime U.S.-Canadian joint air maneuver, 240 R.C.A.F. reserves worked from a defense control center with the U.S. Air National Guard. Every bomber was intercepted by the defending fighters before it got within range of its target. Limited and simple as the problem was, it demonstrated, said the R.C.A.F., "the ability of the Canadian Air Reservists and United States Air National Guardsmen to integrate forces in the event of an emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Operation Metropolis | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Another factor, of course, is France's multi-party system--Queuille's Cabinet alone had representatives of eight different political parties. Since the Communists and the anti-government extremists on the Right control nearly half of the seats in the Assembly, a coalition of moderates requires the cooperation of members with wide differences of political sympathy, a range that in U.S. politics would extend from left-wing New Dealers to Senator Taft. There is no majority party, and for two years, the Communists, who have a plurality, have not been represented in the Cabinet. To add to the difficulties...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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