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As the Yalie Daily humbly proclaimed, "In the changing of an institution's traditions, where is the line between what is so extreme that by its execution the institution no longer exists? In the case of Yale, the line is attired in plaid Bermuda shorts and poodle hair-cuts." Thus...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

From the beginning, President Mohammed Ayub Khan has emphasized that his aim is to improve efficiency in administration. The emphasis is twofold: (1) tackling the major problems; and (2) on service to the people. Persistent interference by locally influential, corrupt politicians which obstructed the execution of well-formulated policies has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

Trouble in the House. Ever since he introduced his Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Rose & the Thorn | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Man in Armor. The time had come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Winner & Champion | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Newsman, playwright, novelist and Hollywood script mechanic, Ben (The Front Page) Hecht, 63, has always been a fast man with the spoken word. He is so fast, in fact, that ever since he took over a TV weeknight interview show on Manhattan's WABC this fall, his guests have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How to Lose Friends | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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