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...discovery that France's vital military secrets had been systematically betrayed to the Communists was dismaying enough. But Frenchmen had even more reason to be shocked last week as the unfolding story of I'affaire Dides laid bare a picture of political decay that made politicians ready to risk their country's safety and their compatriots' lives over pride of office and reach for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Rot at the Heart | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Dixie's most abundant natural resources-southern pine. Outside the long, low buildings, some 450 visiting publishers and their wives inspected a giant man-made pond, as big as the Yale Bowl and capable of storing 30,000 cords of wood under water to guard against decay. Inside, they looked over two huge papermaking machines producing at the rate of 130,000 tons of newsprint a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Paper Prince | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Wisteria & Decay. On the drama front, TV last week went regional with a vengeance. Two shows dealt with the decay-and-magnolia theme of the Deep South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...conversion at the point of the sword.' " But Asad does not ignore the centuries of stagnation that overcame a vigorous society: "As soon as their faith became habit and ceased to be a program of life . . . the creative impulse . . . gradually gave way to indolence, sterility and cultural decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Around the Kaaba | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Lost in the spell of decay, few members of the fantastically inbred faculty will fight the system. For they remember one who did. Lowis K. McMillan, exprofessor of History, was fired for writing a book, "Negro Higher Education in the State of South Carolina," which exposed the system for what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negro Historian Fired for Attack On South Carolina College System | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

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