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...weakness. Enough leading questions are asked in two hours the fill the agendas of several investigating committees, and the convicts come up with answers which seem superficial at best. But if their answers are pat, they are at least to the point. The convicts riot because they want to inform the public of bad prison conditions, and they hope to put their demands before state officials...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Riot in Cell-Block Eleven | 3/4/1954 | See Source »

...article in Monday's paper was labelled "Brass Tacks," and was not an editorial. A "Brass Tacks" is an analysis of a current or historical question; it is intended only to inform and does not contain an editorial opinion. In the Monday "Tacks," Lattimore was included with Browder, Eisler, and smith because he too is a controversial figure. The protest by the American Legion ever the invitation to Mr. Lattimore was one indication that his appearance would be controversial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUCID, BUT CONTROVERSIAL | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

...your Feb. 8 picture captioned "Prizewinner Fraley Has Her Wish": when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Britain should give Moscow a solemn warning: "That in the event of aggression [against any of the NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Atomic Guarantee | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Attempt to Inform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Stops Move to Delay 3-Year Degree | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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