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...fishermen: "forbear swearing, lest [you] be heard and catch no fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advice from an Expert | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Pressures. Misgivings about the Korean truce had dogged U.S. policymakers ever since last March 30, when Red China's Chou Enlai, just back from Moscow, modified the Communist stand on forced prisoner repatriation and prompted reopening of the Panmunjom talks. Where the U.S. hesitated, lest basic principles be betrayed, its allies, led by Britain and India, urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Truce, with Misgivings | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Communism, as a political philosophy, should be taught in colleges, objectively, the Student Council said, like any other academic subject. In their statement, they urged investigators to tread carefully lest they "stifle free thought through the pressures engendered by widespread fear...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Council Draws Protest, Praise For Statement | 5/27/1953 | See Source »

...Washington's beehives of bureaucracy, it is Standing Operating Procedure for a department to spend its full annual appropriation, lest its budget be cut in the years to come. Last week the Marine Corps' commandant, General Lemuel Shepherd, told the House Armed Services Committee of the most non-S.O.P. mili tary maneuver yet. By eliminating purchases of unneeded equipment, the corps has. managed to refund $57 million to the Treasury during fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Non S.O.P. Maneuver | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...what the doctor ordered. But cautious physicians withheld their verdict; too many promising drugs had already turned into disappointing failures. As reports on isoniazid piled up, doctors began to suspect trouble. They observed that some strains of tubercle bacilli quickly learned to live with the drug, and they worried lest the new bacilli lead to varieties of TB that might be harder than ever to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fears Allayed | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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