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...visiting Mormon church basketball team. While the prisoners ran amuck, smashing doors and windows, setting fires, Larson rushed a mobile unit right into the grounds, 2½ hours ahead of rival KUTV. A KTVT camera in the administration building picked up shots of prisoners at the end of a corridor behind bars that marked off their territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV on the Spot | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...therapy." His answer is a long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks out through a full glass wall onto a serene, narrow garden court planted with vine maples and deciduous huckleberries, and backed by a plastic fence paneled in off-white, honey and burnt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Womb with a View | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...really just beginning to appear: to make sure that no conditions are put in the way of clearing the Suez Canal, and to become one means by which the U.N. can impose a solution of some sort on that area--perhaps as permanent border guards in an international corridor separating Israel from Egypt, if the General Assembly follows the suggestion of the British Labor Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Police Force | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...argued that the problem "at the moment is essentially psychological," and that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Gaitskell Urges Closer Big Three Cooperation | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...Come Out & Fight." Back at Clinton high school, a 13-year-old white boy was expelled for elbowing a Negro girl in the corridor. A little later, two toughs barged into the school, ordered a white student to lead them to "where the niggers are." Home-economics Teacher Clarice Brittain, wife of Principal D. J. Brittain Jr., appeared in the hallway. The roughnecks bolted for the nearest exit, jostling Mrs. Brittain and-once safely outside-daring her to "come out and fight." Completely unnerved, Principal Brittain consulted with members of the school board, announced: "The school is being closed because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The True Face of Clinton | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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