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Next day 10,000 Arabs crowded into the lanes of the Old City to bury the Mufti's general. Crying "Hayyouh! Hayyouh!" (Greet him), the crowds followed his coffin, draped in the green, red, white and black of the Palestinian Arabs' flag, to the Dome of the Rock Mosque. "Shaheed, Shaheed" (He is a martyr) muttered devout Moslems. More Arabs were enlisting. Others were joining "Learn How to Shoot" clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Accept . . . | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

More than uncritical jubilation should greet the news that men in upperclass courses will be freed from mid-term grades and monitors next fall. The faculty vote of last week eliminating compulsory November and April marks and required attendance for all courses "primarily for Juniors and Seniors" does allow for simple relief or joy as a reaction, but it should also be applauded on two other, more important levels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Good Thing | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Before Dr. Barsky could greet his distinguished guest, immigration officials hustled Mme. Curie out of sight. Four hours later reporters caught a glimpse of her, looking ruffled and harassed, as she was bundled into a car and whisked off into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Half-Closed Door | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Despite its distinctive character, extremist views of the Dunster domain are largely unjustified. The first Harvard edifice to greet the Charles River pilgrim from Boston is neither a hotbed of Marxists nor South American insurgents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frontier Life Percolates in Dunster Halls | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

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