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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nebraska, four state teachers colleges banned the topic outright. Students, said President Herbert Gushing of the Kearney, Neb. College, should not be allowed to "spend half their time arguing the Communist side." The commanding officers of Annapolis and West Point apparently agreed. To argue the affirmative, said the Navy, would make the Academy's young men "liable to misrepresentation, as well as providing the Reds a tremendous propaganda device." At Duke University, one debater reported that he had received a letter from his Congressman. "I certainly hope," warned Representative Edward Robeson, "that you will not undertake to debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Subject for Debate | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home, Ark. (2,217) and Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Votes Against Fluorides | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '58 Elects Union Committee | 10/19/1954 | See Source »

Quicksand & Old Corsets. Marlon Brando Jr. was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., the third child, first son of a salesman of limestone products. His mother, described years later by Actress Stella Adler as "a very beautiful, a heavenly, lost, girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...first homesteader: Union Soldier Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Old Car Peddler | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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