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In the Harvard system of honors tutorial, the most valuable experience of an undergraduate's academic career is the senior-year thesis. All the tremendous resources of the University are theoretically at his disposal for its completion. Aside from the Faculty, foremost among these resources are the privileges of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Place in the Stacks | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

De Ment, raising the problem for military engineers to consider, gives no solution. Even experts would have a hard time distinguishing a delayed-action bomb from a dud or a harmless fake, especially if the object had been seen to sink to the bottom of the harbor. Civil defense authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Duds | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Certainly, the native-born young Israelis, the "sabras" (nicknamed from an edible cactus that is prickly on the outside, soft and sweet within) who fought for their land like lions under the inspiration of Zionism, have been searching for a new source of inspiration. The intense Zionist ideology of heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Judaism? | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Conquered People. "It would be sheer folly to place at their disposal a health service such as we know it in Germany; and so-no inoculations and other preventive measures for the natives! . . . The local population must be given no facilities for higher education . . . Notices in the Ukrainian language '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Sir John's first major challenge will be disposal of what he calls the "Big Seven," some of the biggest British steel firms.* So much capital will be required to buy their shares that only London's professional traders in the "City" (London's Wall Street) could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Scrambled Steel | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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