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With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Culture Cab | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

President Conant at the welcoming luncheon discussed the teaching of science and said that the present College curriculum requires a course on the history of science to orient students not concentrating in the area of the natural sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Elect Robinson New Leader at San Francisco Gathering | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Split | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Cinema columnists duly reported the state of Elizabeth's wonder, followed the romance play by play. Glenn gave her his gold football, his All-America sweater and finally, Elizabeth said, his troth, effective in three years, some time after his tour of duty in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

After 14 years and countless breaks and reconciliations, Siri and August were divorced. He grew a Mephistophelean beard and devoted himself to the study of evil. He roamed about Europe, now trying to photograph the moon, now trying to make gold. He was interested in the Orient and Buddhism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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