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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighteen Csepel Island steel plant workers, accused of "counterrevolution" and murder. Five of them had escaped to the West and were being tried in absentia. The principal defendant, Karoly Szente, a 51-year-old locksmith, startled the court by repudiating his confession. His 19-year-old son did the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Without Mercy | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...minors is nothing so unusual here or anywhere else. But of course rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Little Mother | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...these unexplored areas of human knowledge seemed as impenetrable as the forests of this continent to the settlers 350 years ago. But they were not deterred. Their example can help us to build another New World of which our children and descendants will speak proudly 350 years from now. Eighteen years ago, my father at the White House, on just such an occasion as this, proposed the toast which I am going to propose tonight. I pray that the ancient ties of friendship between the people of the U.S. and of my peoples may long endure, and I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Visitors | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...this then, the CCA also had a good issue with which to spark the speeches of the eighteen people it is endorsing for school committee and city council. Further, with its policy of making its candidates pledge to uphold a definite platform approved by CCA members, the association is a constructive force in electing good candidates to city offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schools and Scandals | 10/9/1957 | See Source »

...time. They are also very often less specialized and more willing to explore areas of the field outside their own special fields--and there are more of them. There are and always will be loopholes and overcrowding here and there in a tutorial program where twenty-eight tutors offer eighteen different fields of study. Nonetheless, anyone who took the trouble to examine the qualifications of our tutors would be impressed with preparation and versatility comparable, I believe, to appointees in other fields. The Committee, I am sure, would say about this as President Eliot once said to Henry Adams: "Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY AND LITERATURE | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

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