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With a flourish of dire warnings, stern homilies and inspired publicity, Dr. Ali Amini last week entered into his second precarious month as Premier of Iran...
...President. There were potential benefits?and obvious hazards. Both Khrushchev and De Gaulle have greater power than Kennedy to translate their personal impressions into political action within their countries. And if, in their taking of his measure, either found him wanting, then the meaning to the future could be dire...
...vacuum of Alabama leadership, riot ruled. Some of the Nashville stu dents, joined by sympathizers, white and black, boarded a Greyhound bus and were escorted to Birmingham's limits by city cops, who then turned the whole business over to state troopers. But despite ample, early and dire warnings, no policemen were waiting when the bus pulled into Montgomery, Ala., a city that had been relatively free of racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a successful Negro boycott against bus segregation (TIME cover...
...atmosphere of sharp contrast there is a despondency among the unemployed that arises from insecurity, boredom, a sense of failure and futility, rather than from physical hardship. Compared to the unemployed in other days or other countries, Muncie's jobless are pretty well off, cushioned from dire want by unemployment checks and other forms of social generosity...
...store floorwalking. The campus is an all-too-loose federation of competing schools that span education from poetry to dentistry, without any agreed hierarchy of academic values. For example, the Institute of Technology recently spirited physics and chemistry away from the liberal arts college, which critics contend is another dire step toward vocationalism. Liberal learning is so secondary that a business student spends only 18% of his courses on it, and a dentistry student only...