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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manstein was the last of the defendants in the war-crimes trials of World War II. When his British judges handed down their verdict this week, the Allies closed their case against the enemy leaders whom, in the name of all mankind, they had arraigned for crimes against humanity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Last Defendant | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Rams. Thanks solely to such private contributions, Tecnológico last week was setting the pace for Monterrey, Mexico's fastest growing (pop. 280,000) industrial center (steel, glass, paint). On the tree-shaded, 148-acre campus, some of the 1,365 students were settling down in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: M. I. T. | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Strong-willed María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, finally wore down her dad's long opposition to her leaving home. She was reported engaged in Madrid to Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu y Bascará...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Coping with female students, he reported, could be literally overwhelming. "When [a professor] meets them coming down the sidewalk toward him three abreast, they refuse to break rank and simply push him off into the grass . . . They invariably park their bicycles right in front of the door or the steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Male & Females | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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