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Romantic Filibuster. The Prairie Giant fell with a crash that reverberated through the social circles of the capital. Summoning all his demagogue's dialectic and caucus cunning, Senator Ratcliffe sets out to filibuster Mrs. Lee out of her heart, her hand and her income. As the senatorial courtship wheezes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Widow & the Senator | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

As U.S. schoolboys fondly recite Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death," so Israeli schoolboys like to declaim the Psalmist's powerful text: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The U.S. Is Annoyed | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

But for pure animal cunning, there is nothing that beats the "infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 5/22/1952 | See Source »

On another occasion a medical student, armed with bananas, patiently taught a female chimpanzee how to reach through the bars and open her cage. The cunning animal learned so well that she promptly liberated every monkey in the place and eventually had to be isolated when she began instituting her...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: Monkeys Is De Kwaziest Peoples | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

The U.S., the world's greatest technological civilization, is running short of engineers. For years it looked as if there would be a glut, not a shortage. Engineering students used to spend their last spring in college like any other seniors: looking for jobs. But today industry competes for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Engineer Shortage | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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