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...Palestine Scandal. The indictment was overdrawn but not incorrect. Farouk, who could have been an uncommonly intelligent and able King (and occasionally was), turned out in the main to be an uncommonly gross and unrestrained one. He gave free rein to all his appetites-from women to power, and treated his Premiers as he did his girl friends, changing them constantly (five Premiers in one six-month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Perfect Performance | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...statement that a picture in the article was faked is incorrect. "It was taken," said Skinner, "to illustrate the statement that dogs have the pattern discrimination needed to select a particular card from a deck. No claim was made that we had actually done this experiment for the 'Look' photographer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skinner Corrects Statement | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...Report, there were gloomy predictions about manpower and money. The Bender Committee feared that individual tutorial for honors seniors and juniors would have to be drastically curtailed. Others feared that tutorial for all would mean large unwieldly groups. Still others prophesied a rise in tuition. The pessimistic predictions were incorrect, tuition will remain at the same level it is now, tutorial groups will be limited to a maximum of six students, and individual tutorial will not be curtailed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Revival of Tutorial | 2/15/1952 | See Source »

...college papers. All morning the Air Force officers involved had been talking feverishly in an effort to convince the editors that the Corps was composed entirely of clean-cut red-blooded types who sent their meagre earnings home to Mother. The captain's story would obviously create an Incorrect Impression, and the publicity man looked worried...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: A Scramble for Rotarians | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

...yesterday's CRIMSON, the date and place of the showing of part of the new Ivy Films production were incorrect. The showing will be held tonight at the New Lecture Hall. The previous story reported the time and place as last night at the Harkness Commons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errata | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

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