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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Jan. 28 article goes into great detail about the personal expenditures of the royal family and some of the skeletons that are in its closet. This treatment of the situation, which is as difficult for Americans to understand as our mores are for the Saudi Arab, is immature. There is no doubt that Americans are irritated by some Saudi laws, but it should be remembered that the Saudis might also be irritated by some American customs. It is, after all, their country. JOHN BOLES Assistant Professor Loyola University of Los Angeles Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard, say a few simple words and grin again. Then, little by little, a new kind of light would begin to shine on the most difficult subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cheerful Mathematician | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...every country which has a film industry of any size--German, French, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Mexican, British, Polish--and a great many American re-issues which have some status as film classics or which happen to please the management or which fill gaps in a program which becomes increasingly difficult to schedule with the current "product shortage" yawning emptily before art theatres throughout the country...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Anniversary of a Theatre | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

...Dartmouth-Harvard swimming meet at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the IAB has been widely and correctly predicted to be the Crimson's hardest before Yale. But it is difficult to foresee ultimate defeat for the varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers to Face Strong Dartmouth in IAB | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Marshall said that efforts toward integration are made more difficult by the "subconsciously accepted feeling that the Negro is a little bit inferior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marshall Calls N.A.A.C.P. Work Vital to Desegregation of Schools | 2/14/1957 | See Source »

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