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...Voices. It was hard to believe that in five days the 133 members of the Central Committee failed to take up such a pertinent topic as the spreading ferment of discontent in the universities. In Kiev and Azerbaijan, reported the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, students were in an "unhealthy state of mind," and at the Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked...
...months in office. Edward H. Litchfield has made it clear that he wants to make Pitt nothing less than one of the top six universities in the country. His ambition has proved contagious. "Ever since he came," says one facultyman, "the university has been in a ferment. There is a terrific amount of soul-searching going on. People are looking at themselves in Litchfield's mirror...
...section, the editors have been struck time and again by the strength and vitality of native U.S. art. Along with the foreign painting, sculpture and architecture, from the ancient Egyptians and Etruscans to the latest sculpture from Paris, TIME has recorded the history and day-to-day ferment of American paintings, from the untutored journeyman portraitists of colonial days to the explosive abstract expressionists. Among the almost 700 full-color reproductions printed since 1951, some 200 were of American paintings, the most extensive color survey of U.S. art now available...
Public insensitivity to the dangers of a nuclear war is a second obstacle to effective civil defense. First aid and other survival training courses are ignored. Civic organizations for civil defense die of unpopularity. Yet beneath apparent complacency lies the ferment called "atomic jitters." The disease is not incurable. Its remedy is a civil defense program designed to regain public interest and co-ordinate public activity at all levels...
BUDAPEST IS IN FERMENT TODAY. HUGE MASS DEMONSTRATION HANGS OVER CITY. TEN THOUSAND WORKERS FROM INDUSTRIAL AREAS ARE MARCHING ON PARLIAMENT. RUSSIAN AGENTS TRIED TO STOP THEM BUT HAVE BEEN BRUSHED ASIDE. THEY BLOCK ALL BRIDGES AND SPECIAL PATROLS ARE AROUND PARLIAMENT BUILDING...