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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the result of Harvard education, the President said that it was often to bring students to a "curious blend of skepticism and excited caring." He suggested that the reticence "is not unrelated to whatever it is that causes many Harvard men--it seems to be, unnecessarily-- to hold back from anticipation in organized religious life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Hear Pusey Give Baccalaureate | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Noyes: "It is such a short distance that we never wear coats, we often wander across in slippers and pajamas even in mid-winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

France's President René Coty, a schoolmaster's son from Normandy, is often seen but seldom heard. Unannounced and unexpected, Coty took to the radio in an unprecedented midnight broadcast from Paris. His voice shook with emotion as he said: "There is no Frenchman in all the world, there is not a man with a heart who was not overcome with pity and horror in learning of the massive atrocities. These abominations are not only the act of a few bandits. The killers continue to execute the orders of their chiefs, of the same chiefs who, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ordeal Without End | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Despite the Tory leader's emergence as an aggressive, often eloquent campaigner, he had only regional discontents to fan for votes; e.g., the Western farmers' fears that the government would be unable to empty the West's wheat-glutted bins, the depressed Atlantic Provinces' need for federal economic aid. Though he argued effectively that the Liberal Party has grown fat and overbearing after 22 years in office, the Liberals outflanked him by pointing to a record of peace and plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Election Prospects | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...ended last week, and three Paris judges will hand down their decision this week. His corpulent Majesty did not appear in court. Full-bodied Defendant Maxwell's out-of-court defense was basically zoological. "I've never been called a monkey," chattered she. "But I've often been called a young whale. Of course, I'm just as much a beast as Farouk is, but I'm naturally so, or at least I hope so!" Have her feelings mellowed toward Fatso? "Humph! This man Farouk is no good at all!" ∙∙∙ Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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