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When Instructor O'Tarrell asked him to lend a hand, the boy flatly refused. Finally, O'Tarrell told him to clear out, but the boy retorted: "You put me out." "I'll escort you out,'' said O'Tarrell, and took the teen-ager by the arm. At that point, the boy pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket, shook himself free, and plunged the blade twice into O'Tarrell's back. As five other stunned school employees and more than a hundred pupils stared in silence, he fled into the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Incident in the Jungle | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Bargaining for the much-needed fleet of King Nicomedes of Bithynia, Caesar was faced with one condition; the King would lend his fleet "if the handsome young Roman noble would sleep with him." Although he was always known as an enthusiastic ladies' man, Caesar agreed, and felt he had done his country a patriotic turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Biggest Roman of Them All | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...last-minute scramble that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there are 14 tailors and 14 dressmakers backstage to lend a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dressing Up the Act | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...standard, the College should hire permanent language instructors, who would teach the beginning and intermediate sections of German, French and Spanish. Graduate students and regular research men could continue to teach the literary courses at the upper levels, where their special interests and insights would continue to lend color to their teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Verbal Vigor | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...inter-American economic conference in Rio last year, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey promised the free nations of the world that the Eisenhower Administration would back the idea of a sort of international RFC to lend to private enterprise abroad (TIME. Nov. 22). Last week the U.S. made good its promise. World Bank President Eugene Black proposed that an International Finance Corp. be chartered with $100 million in capital, membership of the 56 nations "that belong to the World Bank. Principal customers will be businessmen in underdeveloped countries who need capital but object to the meddling that comes with government-guaranteed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aiding World Trade | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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