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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their experience, and those of the three others, are surprisingly alike. All from Western Europe, their fear of Russia was stronger than their hatred of Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Liebman said he is watching his step until the rally for fear of an incident like the one before the Yale-Brown game, when the Elis kidnapped Brown's head cheerleader and held him prisoner for four days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Starts Yale Weekend | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Whistling in the Dark? Unlike the British in Hong Kong, the Portuguese say they have little to fear from agitation inside the colony. For years there has been a small Communist cell in Macao, perhaps 200 intellectuals, mostly doctors, lawyers and teachers. "We have them spotted," said a Portuguese police official. "They loathe to mix with the lower classes, so we don't have to worry too much about them." On China's "Double Tenth" only six Communist flags flew in Macao, despite the fact that the colony has one factory openly manufacturing the flags for export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACAO: A Time for Circumspection | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...dropped down to earth with Mars, the whole godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair. Venus' real weakness was not gods but men, something her mother-in-law was shrewd enough to suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pesth Fool | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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