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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your most recent poke at my father [Nov. 5] was totally uncalled for, and touches a lower level than usual, even for TIME. His news "checks out" as correct far more often than your slanted reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...that this is wrong on two counts: 1) the importance of the pubococcygeus has been neglected because it has usually been studied only in cadavers, where it is always flaccid, whereas its weakness should be detected promptly in living patients; 2) there is a better way than surgery to correct most cases of pubococcygeal weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neglected Muscle | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Unfortunately, concluded Rickover, "the very thought of recognizing differences in intellectual ability is repugnant to our equalitarian philosophy . . . We are committed to the basic assumption that there is no person who can claim to be an indispensable man. We proceed from this entirely correct assumption to the incorrect conclusion that neither does a democracy have indispensable men. This is obviously erroneous ... No society can function without its indispensable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Indispensable Men | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...down the compromised Imre Nagy (who had found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime in Budapest because, "In my opinion they represent that which is most honest in Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tito Talks | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...weeks U.S. track buffs had been singing the blues because of injuries and poor pre-Australian performances. Only Coach Jim Kelly was unperturbed, and last week reports from Melbourne about warmup sessions proved him correct. Minnesota's Fortune Gordien ambled out to the practice field and spun his discus in a casual. 195-ft. toss that bettered his own world record. California's Cy Young, holder of the 1952 Olympic javelin mark (242 ft. ¾ in.), broke that record by flinging his spear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greatest U.S. Team Ever | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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