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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At week's end the State Department announced that the U.S., British, French and West German foreign ministers would meet in Paris in March "if developments warrant"-meaning if Moscow has replied by then to the allied notes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: United They Stand | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

On the floor of the Senate one day last week Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche recalled a luncheon given by the Foreign Relations Committee in honor of the U.S.S.R.'s visiting First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. The questioning, led by Lausche, turned to the crash of an off-course U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Question of Faith | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Aparajito will probably be weighed in the balance with Pather Panchali and found slightly wanting. But such a comparison misses the point: as the second movement in a composition, Aparajito is meant to express the consequences of the first movement, Father Panchali, and to prepare the mood of the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

The conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Pres. Conant, Adm. Rickover: 2 Prescriptions for Our Time | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

Not far from the Wolfe papers, along another aisle, five massive editions of the Tibetan scipture, the Tripitaka, lie wrapped with yellow burlap covers. This great work is a sort of Tibetan wonder book, combining holy writ with popular ideas on political and natural science. On the outside of each...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Houghton Collection Provides Treasure Trove for Scholars | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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