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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Grades. Dr. Seliger puts drinkers into three categories: moderate social drinkers, heavy social drinkers, and alcoholics. The social drinker, he says, "can stop drinking at will . . . [Even at parties he] usually stops short of actually getting drunk to the extent of not knowing what he is doing. [He does not get] involved in real jams, fights with strangers, police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Drinkers | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

First, under a Commission decision of last spring, officials have been investigating the extent of radiation leakage from the coaxial cable systems currently in use in college radio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Network, Radio Radcliffe Put Off Airwaves by FCC Measure | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

There were no dramatics, only a kind of slow suspense. For most of the participants, and to some extent for Alger Hiss himself, the nation's most celebrated trial had become a kind of mechanical, well-mannered nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Enemy | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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