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...explained his position in more earthy language: "Whatever people may say or think, there is a parliamentary regime in France. The constitution provides a number of ways a government may be turned out of office, notably through a motion of censure, as in Great Britain. But the procedure of oral questions followed by a vote is the same as syphilis-first it weakens, then it kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Democracy Is Patience | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...oral drugs do not always take the place of insulin, though they may reduce the need for injections by either 1) stimulating the release of natural insulin from a sluggish pancreas, or 2) increasing the effectiveness of natural or injected insulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pills for Diabetes | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...departmental professors will "interview" each Slavic concentrator in the new oral exams. The test will not cover a student's knowledge of the language; this will be ascertained from grades made in regular language courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentrators In Slavic Will Take Half-Hour Orals | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

Sophomore and Junior concentrators in Slavic will take half-hour oral examinations on Russian literature to determine Honors candidacy, Albert B. Lord '34, chairman of the Slavic Department, announced yesterday. The experimental test, following recommendations made last spring by the Committee on Educational Policy, will be given during the second week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentrators In Slavic Will Take Half-Hour Orals | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

Winding up a month-long crusade in Melbourne, Australia, Evangelist Billy Graham decided that God and Graham had done it again: "Both in total attendance and responses, this has surpassed any crusade of similar length." The staid city, which had all but run Evangelist Oral Roberts out of town in 1956, bucked cloudburst and heat wave to turn out some 714,000 strong for Graham's meetings in the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, the West Melbourne Stadium and the Melbourne Show Grounds, and more than 26,400 made "decisions for Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Real Cool, Billy | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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