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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that at least eight passengers on them were going to miss their connections with the Pacific Express. Irritably, Platt changed his request to an order. Panicky, the MATS men took an easy out, bumped seven emergency-furlough passengers-one lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead son, a dying sister, a mother's funeral, etc.-the colonel turned his back, gathered up his family, marched to the loading ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Word from the General | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Cairo's Voice of the Arabs as the Mideast's most popular radio program, fills the Iraqi people with Communist-made opinions. Such is the nightmarish atmosphere that in at least one Iraqi city (Basra) the populace is firmly convinced that Communist-led unions have prepared a list of local employers, merchants and professional men to be liquidated as soon as the opportunity offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Near the top of the list there are several teams with considerable potential, but from here it looks like the Red Sox will pull it out. Many fans and sportwriters throughout the country have cast grave doubts on this eventuality, but for the past twelve years the CRIMSON has picked Boston and will not be swayed now by the flimsy appeal of public opinion. At a time when all around us values are being shaken and loyalties broken and betrayed, the CRIMSON stands firm and casts a dissenting vote...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: American League: Red Sox Forever; Tigers, White Sox May Challenge | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Tape recordings of the lectures and of selections from plays and poetry on the reading list will be available at the Modern Language Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French 20 Will Offer Lectures Next Fall As Alternate Plan | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...struggle through the academic sloughs. "And then the ungrateful curse reward us good Samaritans by raising the curve and getting better grades than we do," one Harvard student explained. In the eyes of many Harvard men, at least half the 'Cliffe students would never make Dean's List without willing and able assistance...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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