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...Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, 39, who had been in prison two years on a spying charge. They left two oddly matched articles-a pair of Argyle socks knitted by his wife, and his passport. The Embassy was acting on the suspicion that Oatis might need both for traveling. Fourteen hours later he did. Oatis was taken before a Czech Communist official and told that he had been freed. He was no more astounded than everyone else. The U.S. had apparently been making little progress in negotiations for his release, and only two weeks ago the Czechs announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Road to Freedom | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...Fourteen-year-old John is the hero of Go Tell It on the Mountain, a first novel by a 28-year-old Negro who sometimes writes with the powerful rocking rhythms of a storefront-church meeting. Author James Baldwin's own father was a Harlem clergyman, and the church scenes in go Tell It are as compelling as anything that has turned up in a U.S. novel this year. Watch Preacher Elisha: "At one moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, sweat standing on his brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lord, Hold My Hand | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...been filled the concentrator can go on to take advanced courses in any department of the physical sciences--Applied Sciences, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Mathematics, and Physics. Certain courses in Architectural Sciences, some upper group Natural Science Gen. Ed. courses, and Philosophy 140 may also be offered for concentration. Fourteen half courses are required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...Moscow kept its promise to release British and French civilians interned in North Korea since the Communist capture of Seoul in 1950. Fourteen Frenchmen, including two diplomats, one newsman and five nuns, were en route from Moscow on their way home to France. Six Britons and an Irish priest were "in process of repatriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Peace Offensive | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Fourteen departments, Brown announced last week, will offer courses in the "Identification-Criticism" program, which will be concerned with the "pursuit of ideas" in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Will Offer New Curriculum | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

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