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Earlier in the week, government landing parties had seized control of islands dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Island War | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

As the snow turned into slush, a hint of spring tinged the air. and romance was off again, on again. Collared in mink and hatted in velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most...

Author: By Henry Wheeler, | Title: A True University | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Space Fiction by U. P. | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

The first to spark a widely successful management course was Harvard Business School, which set up an advanced program for the Government in World War II to train executives in new production techniques. Out of that early course grew Harvard's famous "case-method" system for business, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCHOOLS FOR EXECUTIVES: How Helpful Is Industry's New Fad? | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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