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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about (TIME, Jan. 3). For 15 hours five judges listened while the prosecutor argued that Djilas and Dedijer, by flouting party discipline and giving interviews critical of the party and its leaders to foreign newsmen, had helped "certain foreign circles...damage the reputation of our country...and render difficult her international position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Surprise Ending | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...must be careful not to injure it," or "When you wake up, you are going to be hungry. You are going to want tuna fish and milk and meat and butter. The right food will help make you well again." So far, hypnosis has brought six difficult test cases around. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnosis for Burns | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...with second-degree burns covering 45% of his body surface, had undergone several unsuccessful skin grafts in 18 months, went from 130 to 90 Ibs. because of refusal to eat properly. Skin infections and contractures (contracted-burn scar tissue) made it difficult for him to move his limbs and neck. Within a few days after hypnosis began, he was taking 4,200 calories per day, became cheerful and cooperative. Thanks to improved diet, skin grafts began to "take." Twelve weeks later, B. W., healed, walked out of the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnosis for Burns | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...less vital than how she plays boss for a day is how she does so for the ensuing two nights. Hence for the next two acts it is Playwright Alexander's difficult job to make nothing much happen, but a good deal seem to. A neighborly and beslacked predatory platinum blonde wanders in and out; so does the heroine's repressed-and clearly replaceable-fiancé: hero and heroine (John Newland and June Lockhart) take turns batting and fielding. And the repressed fiancé (delightfully played by Tom Poston) is twice gorgeously tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Under the college rules it is quite difficult for a student to undertake an Honors Program in History, for instance, and at the same time meet the General Education requirements, the pre-medical requirements, and language requirements," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Deny That Pre-Med Students Get Wrong Advice | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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