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...third fascist group is led by Andrew Fountaine, a wealthy landowner who envisages a northern Europe community from which Jews and Negroes would be excluded; the group uses as its symbol the sun wheel emblem of Arminius, leader of the Germanic tribes that were said to have preserved Aryan "purity" by defeating the Romans in A.D. 9. Mosley still leads Britain's biggest fascist party, but police doubt that all three groups among them total 5,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Lebensraum for Oswald | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...those who are attacked continue to contribute. Why? Is a lust for pain? Yes, in some case Heroics? Perhaps. The writer stand for something. He becomes an emblem of the great trial, and everyone sympathizes with him, nay, sings his praises without reading his work...

Author: By Richard A. Rand, | Title: Creative Writing at Harvard | 5/14/1962 | See Source »

...have recently been surprised in noticing that no-where on the Harvard campus is the national emblem, our flag, displayed daily. It is true that, on days such as when the university receives the Russian ambassador to the UN, University Hall hangs out the American as well as the Soviet and Harvard flags. But where are the stars and stripes when we do not have any such special occasion? I would like to know why Harvard does not hoist the flag every day and proudly too. None of the houses, none of the buildings in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLY THE FLAG | 12/13/1961 | See Source »

Some of the biggest U.S. dailies still carry mastheads whose fusty design and pompous preachments seem unchanged since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maxims & Moonshine | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon: "It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: From the Cracker Barrel | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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