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Despite some "twists" here and there, you could not but admire the man who is so honest with his convictions as to disregard the might of his opponents. It is too bad really that you try to discredit Nasser-the only man who has brought hope in our future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...five years since he wrested control of the Florence city government from the Communists, Sicilian-born Giorgio La Pira has conscientiously followed this simple approach to public problems and private funds. With a cheerful disregard for legality, the onetime professor of Roman law has seized bankrupt factories to prevent dismissal of their employees, requisitioned private dwellings to house the poor and financed public works so expensive that they have exhausted Florence's legal borrowing power until the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Call for the Saint | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...among today's pupils? Though two out of three teachers said that less than one in every 100 students is a troublemaker, a substantial number felt that delinquency has increased over the past ten years. Half reported an increase in impertinence and discourtesy, 43% said that more pupils disregard their homework, and about one in three noted a rise in vandalism, drinking, profanity and stealing. In the past year, 28% of the big-city teachers and half of those in slum areas reported at least one act of physical violence against a teacher in their schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...weeks France's Communists have been under orders to agitate against the war in Algeria, demonstrating against troop-train departures, plastering up posters, organizing protest meetings-all with a fine disregard of the fact that only three months ago the party's Deputies voted solidly to give the government a free hand in Algeria. Now Premier Guy Mollet had confronted them-and all French parties-with a demand for a "package" vote of confidence on his whole policy, including both Algeria and his domestic program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vote of Tolerance | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...same disregard for the values of intellectual discipline marks its criticisms of undergraduate organizations. The CRIMSON according to i.e., need only serve as "an outlet for energies and the expression of a point of view." Most Crimeds, however, feel that, beside blowing off steam, they are developing an intellectual discipline which may liberate them from confusion. Seeking its own kind of integrity, not sexual or emotional, the CRIMSON spends much of its time attempting to clarify issues, and, we hope, offering constructive solutions. In the process, it would like to have a rational point of view. If this not enough...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: i.e., the Cambridge Review | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

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