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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heads will serve Curtis better than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show." Soon he will embark on a five-week barn storming tour of the U.S. to see the "heads of 75 companies, the top 30 ad agencies, bankers, securities analysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Year of the Tiger | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...only thing that a university need do now to make it even more incapable of solving its persistent problems is to embark on a massive research program into its own continued unwillingness to do things it has long known need to be done." I'm sure such a project would find takers in the schools of education and in the teachers' colleges, which, as Eble elsewhere states, are "large islands of mediocrity" and are known for their "quagmires of methodology." One need only glance down the annual lists of dissertation titles accepted for advanced degrees in education...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SIXTIES | 7/19/1962 | See Source »

Recently, Burma has been beset again by a faltering economy and sharpened political tensions. Heavy floods last fall wiped out 800,000 acres of revenue-producing rice just as the nation was about to embark on an ambitious industrial development plan; U Nu's Union Party elected five left-wingers to key executive posts; ethnic minority groups such as Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Deteriorating Situation | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Among them is Tobias, an unbeliever, who has felt himself somehow impelled to embark upon a pilgrimage to Jerusalem on behalf of an unknown woman whom he had found dead with the stigmata-the marks of the Crucifixion. Attached to Tobias is Diana, a once beautiful woman turned promiscuous slattern, who ridicules the idea of the pilgrimage and tags along only to be with him. Ahasuerus joins them, and the three unbelievers set out on a strange, symbolic pilgrimage several days' journey behind the other pilgrims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Religious Atheist | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...inaugurated a new seminar this semester entitled Classical Philology 299b, The Culex: an Introduction to Latin Textual Criticism. Among the recondite aims of this course will be "practice in reading and collating MSS, making an apparatus criticus, and establishing a "text." It may be helpful to those ready to embark on so perilous a trek in the groves of Academe to halt a moment and take heed of A.E. Housman's published Remarks on the Culex (1902). THE EDITORS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remarks on the Culex | 2/15/1962 | See Source »

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