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...They are decadent, degenerate, and morally corrupt. Many children of rich families play truant the whole day long and spend their time in clubs drinking, merry-making, and indulging in orgies of debauchery. Some of them even operate clubs themselves so that they can loaf all day long. A Harvard University student went as far as openly bringing in a group of prostitutes and running a brothel inside the school. To girl students the Harvard campus means a prohibited area to be dreaded. Unescorted girls dare not walk on it. It has been the scene of robberies, molestation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Professor on 'Rotting' American Education 'Here and There at Harvard College' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...small corner plot only 104 ft. by 125 ft. To create within five stories a total floor space seven times as great as the site, he proceeded much like a Sardinian baker, who, with every piece of dough he subtracts, adds it back some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries culminating in a lofty, sky-lit top gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Cliffhhanger on Madison Avenue | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Thursday, September 22 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and-Pow!" The Jericho team infiltrates German submarine pens, built in the shadow of an ancient French cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 23, 1966 | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...first F.I.C.C. rally in an Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Togetherness Under Canvas | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

After a bitter twelve-day floor fight, the House last week produced a fair-housing bill that gave the Johnson Administration several slices less than half a loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: A Modest Milestone | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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