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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Reverse Switch. The Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis got into trouble late last year, after it bought for one of its Negro salesmen a $500 life membership in the N.A.A.C.P. on the theory that it would help him in his dealings with Negro customers. The White Sentinel, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Land of Boycott | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

But then the Fourth Republic faced no such testing time as it now faces. The anguished question of Algeria-the possibility that it may become another Indo-China, closer to home-is the one unknowable in all comfortable calculations about the future of parliamentary democracy in France. In such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Ordinary Frenchman | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

The religious experience, for example, begins in the childhood sensation he calls 'joy'. This, he says, "has only one characteristic in common with happiness and pleasure; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again." He does not expect, however, to recreate joy for the reader. He...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Spiritual Odyssey of an Oxford Don | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

But in almost all other states prorating still booms along with little or no regulation. The commonest abuse is the consultant's practice of extracting the fee from the first payments, thus leaving the debtor still more in hock. For example, a New Yorker gave the budgeteer $35 a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: DEBT CONSULTANTS | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Iowa has, however, a program which attempts to eliminate these inadequacies. By administering IQ tests from first grade on, and comparing scores with classroom achievements, the educators can discover the student who is unmotivated. While IQ tests are very imperfect measures of ability, they can show who has ability and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brain-Power Shortage: II | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

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