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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those place names around the world which come to mean not a landscape but a problem, few seemed more bound up in hatreds and hopeless intricacies than Cyprus. But after four years of bombings, murders and repression, after 508 deaths and the near collapse of NATO's Eastern wing, the bloody dispute over the British colony of Cyprus last week suddenly moved toward solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Something Like a Miracle | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets to fatten a temple diet of soybean soup and boiled radishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zensation | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Calling for a "coeducational, residential college, initially of about a thousand students" located near the four sponsoring insttutions, The New College Plan opens a 56 page attack on academic rigidity...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...does not set up small fighting units ready for instant transportation to limited trouble spots, so-called "brushfire wars." Nor does it encourage the maintenance of a highly trained technical corps which, once trained, will stay in uniform. Nor does the reserve system actually keep its members in anything near mobilization readiness or preserve the expensive training undergone during active duty...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Corrected Draft | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...Unless Mr. Dulles' health declines rapidly in the near future, I think he will continue to make basic diplomatic policy," Dean Bundy told the Harvard Young Republican Club yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Feels Dulles May Continue; Cheever Prefers New Appointment | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

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