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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to be careful to say little to offend Moscow or Peking. But in a memo to his ruling Congress Party last August, Nehru had criticized the "growing contradictions" in Communism, charged that Communism's "unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Tito's Travels | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Back at the beginning of the century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Marshals | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

These are doubtful contentions. A charities drive must, to some degree, be operated on a hierarchial basis and the Council already offers this. Its members serve as a cadre which can organize solicitors in each House. A central co-chairmanship of two students with the willingness to work and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities and Council | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Two-thirds of the carafes examined were "grossly unhygienic"-meaning that in many there were the partly decomposed bodies of insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death at the Bedside | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

J.B. A search for the meaning behind modern man's agony, conducted by Archibald MacLeish in a 20th century restatement of the Book of Job. Despite dramatic shortcomings, the verse play is an impressive and moving effort. With Christopher Plummer, Raymond Massey, Pat Hingle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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