Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GIFT OF $3,000,000 LAUNCHES RADICAL EXPERIMENT IN UNDERGRADUATE LIFE
Faulkner had never before settled at a college and spoken his mind. At first, neither he nor the university knew how the experiment in communication would turn out. Students were warned not to intrude on his personal life or ask for autographs. The prospect of facing a roomful of students...
¶ The case of Maura Lyons, 16, the Roman Catholic girl who disappeared from her Belfast home after becoming a Presbyterian (TIME, March 18), was closed by a court order that she be returned to her Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new...
After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii.
After months of debate over foreign aid, Washington seemed tired of it all. In the mouths of Administration leaders the timeworn arguments for the program -e.g., military aid is "vital" to the defense of the free world-had become cliches, wrung dry of meaning from reiterated challenge, reiterated response. Last...