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...showing that we know what's going on by being surly to the librarians, is to take up botany or something that you can study in Widener. In Widener, the romance of learning is everywhere. Like the time I'm after Siamese 2185.16.342B.14 (John Foster Dulles, Friend or Foe?). Following directions to the letter, I find myself, after a maze of passages, in front of a little embroidered curtain in a recess between bookshelves. Drawing the curtain aside, I see a little red door, with a peephole in it. I knock, and the peephole peeps. After a moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Library: Half a Decade of Decadence | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

This was the first and last meet for Ulen's new squad in 1953. The Crimson's next foe will be Brown, here on Saturday, January...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Swimmers Beat Springfield; Hawkins Sets Two Records | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...reservations are not unjustified, for the team faces a difficult and poorly staggered schedule. Along with its perennially rugged opponents--Army, Yale and Columbia--the Crimson has the added task of meeting a new foe, powerful Pennsylvania, just two days following its traditionally taxing match with Princeton...

Author: By Stephen S. Shohet, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

...spends more time undermining a U.S. position than in building joint defenses against Communism. And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians. Both nations are spending political energy against each other that could be used against the common foe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE U.S. AND BRITAIN | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Salazar's corporative system binds the nation's economy, from farming to foreign trade, into tight, firmly controlled corporations or syndicates. Though Economist Salazar has won from friend & foe a reputation for selflessness and honesty (he promises to turn his pockets inside out when, and if, he resigns), the system's complexities and red tape have produced much graft. In his Cabinet are 15 ministers, but Dr. Salazar ultimately makes all the hard decisions himself, occasionally lectures government officials, and Portugal's industrial and business leaders with dry, essay-like speeches which he laboriously composes himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Quiet One | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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