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Last week, the head of Vienna's kindergarten system warned parents that the effect of an interview with Krampus might well leave their children scarred for life. In a leaflet called Krampus Is an Evil Man, Dr. Ernst Kotbauer urged that his children be freed of the frightful cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Throw Out Krampus | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

There is a very broad range of degree of Communist pressure on prisoners. In some of the cases described in Dr. Charles Mayo's report to the U.N. (TIME, Nov. 2) men withstood frightful beatings and torture, as well as concentrated attempts at brainwashing, without confessing. On the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Go Slow | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Manhattan gallerygoers are an experienced lot. Within the space of a few blocks on syth Street they can see every kind of painting, from pensive and pastoral to wild and woolly, from dully familiar to aggressively frightful. But even the initiates who pushed into the crowded gallery where Willem de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big City Dames | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Shoehorns & Scimitars. At the end of the two days of rioting, some 3,000 Arabs were rounded up in the same union hall where the trouble began. As the police forced them into a sullen huddle, the hall was filled with the clatter of weapons-clasp knives, ice picks, scimitars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: To Create Martyrs | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

5. Prohibits closed-shop agreements between employers and unions. 58. Japanese voters gave their Communist countrymen a frightful drubbing, reduced their representation in the Diet's lower chamber from 22 to: 1. None.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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