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...segregationist leader of the 1957 riots at Central High School; during last fall's elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would be no problems in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Rock's Convert | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...added meaning coming from the dean of faculty of a new public college spun off by big (20,000 students) Michigan State University, long known as an "ag and tech" institution. Last week, at the opening of the new college at Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal: to teach the art of living as well as pure knowledge. Said he to M.S.U.Oakland's first 500 students (all freshmen): "What is success? What is good? What do I want? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invitation to Living | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out of the Zoo | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Harvard's main effect upon Protestantism and individual Protestants seems to be one of "reshaping." Less than one-third of the Protestants questioned by the CRIMSON poll felt themselves in "substantial" agreement with the tenets of their faith; the others continued in their religious tradition only with reservations or else rejected it completely...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Harvard Protestants Lose Faith Under Rational Impact of College | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola has contributed two works to the uncompleted commons wing of Quincy. His graffito--a combination of fresco painting and engraving on white stucco--adorns the west wall of the main dining room, while a Nivola bas-relief covers the wall separating the stairwell from the dinning room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nivola's Work Brightens Quincy House | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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