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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to express my admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution. It was an interesting critical analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...those who struggle through the editorial to discover what the possibility amounts to, it becomes clear that perhaps a prerequisite to a point of view should be clarity of expression. Unfortunately, a good deal of confusion, and indeed ill will, is inspired by pompous ambiguity. Although the editorial could be more clearly expressed, this is not to say that some worthwhile ideas are not detectable. In fact these ideas, as well as the rest of the material in the current issue, go a long way toward answering two important questions that were posed at the review's appearance: 1) whether...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: i.e., The Cambridge Review | 11/23/1955 | See Source »

...policy changes, which were adopted last October, provide for more flexible standards, which will allow "well considered experiments in education." The Council will thus permit engineering education to "express an institution's own individuality and ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineers' Curriculum May Gain Accreditation | 11/22/1955 | See Source »

Last week two more industrial giants announced their future plans. Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert said his company will spend more than $1 billion over the next five years for new plants and automated equipment. To express "our confidence in the economic outlook," Standard Oil (N.J.), the world's biggest oil company, announced that in 1956 it will spend a record $1.1 billion on expansion: 50% on searching for new oil, 25% on refineries, and the rest for new transportation and marketing facilities to get its products to consumers. Little Man Beware. In Wall Street there are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Every Man a Capitalist | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...careless dresser. Liberace decided to "insist that all the different facets of my personality ... be included in the picture." As a result, the Beethoven story seems to have been combined with the plot of a well-known melodrama, The Man Who Played God. Liberace could now express his musical talents as Beethoven, and satisfy his dramatic instincts in a part played by George Arliss. Even so, there were some "facets" left over. Liberace listed them: "Joy, sorrow, faith, love of family, love of children, and honesty." Obviously, a third theme was necessary; the story of a poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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