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...identified or an innocent acquaintance charged with espionage. He can never talk shop with his wife or pass on gossip that could reveal a colleague's foibles and lead to blackmail. With friends, he must listen closely to others' conversation, be continually alert to give or obey the service's traditional signal to change the subject: a long, pointed look at the ceiling. In time, the naturally communicative, libertarian American citizen tends to react to constant surveillance with moods of black depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Little Ears | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...some answers to great questions about cities of the past, will these solutions prove relevant to contemporary urban problems? This will be one of the questions that the members of the conference will have to consider. Is there any continuity in the history of the city? Do contemporary cities obey the laws of change of past cities? Are the problems of urban industrial civilization completely unique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference to Study 'City and History' | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

Predictably, Communist General Secretary Gus Hall announced that the party will refuse to obey the order to register. In Washington, Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that the deadline is Aug. 9, and that the party will be fined $10,000 for every day thereafter that it fails to comply with the order. Communist leaders may also be fined and sentenced to five years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Blows Against Communism | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...money from the rich to try to educate the poor, who don't want any education, are puzzled by it, and once they get it, such as they can absorb, use it only to read confession and detective magazines. So I say, teach the boobs nothing, except to obey their superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summa Contra Mencken | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Nkosi also condemned the detailed police regulations which the Negro South Africans are required to obey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speakers Discuss Defense, Apartheid Problems | 4/22/1961 | See Source »

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