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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering Dr. Conant's intellectual record, as chemist, as Harvard President, as advisor to the Manhattan Project, and finally as diplomat, it is perhaps surprising that his recommendations should be more practical than those of a professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Pres. Conant, Adm. Rickover: 2 Prescriptions for Our Time | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

Harvard squash followers will no doubt remember a similar trip two years ago, when Jack Barnaby's squad, led by the brilliant Ben Hecksher, went on this exact same journey and met a totally unexpected disaster at Navy and Princeton. That year, however, the Crimson was heavily favored to take...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Squash Players to Face Weak Penn Squad This Afternoon | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

Indonesia. President Sukarno may be an inept administrator but he has a keen ear and eye for the political currents that sweep Southeast Asia. His comment, "Parliamentary democracy doesn't work in this part of the world," has been justified by the events that have sent generally corrupt Parliaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Communism on the Defensive | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A re-creation of last year's mine disaster at Springhill, Nova Scotia, in which, amazingly, twelve men were found alive a week after the cave-in, seven more two days after that.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Time Listings, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

A Night to Remember. The R.M.S. Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the triumphs and hysterics reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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