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...coincidence, it was also the anniversary of the day in 1939 when the last pockets of Republican resistance collapsed in Madrid. Now, 20 years after he proclaimed himself ruler of Spain, "responsible only to God and history," Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 66, was ready to offer a partial accounting for his stewardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 20 Years After | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Vast as Mankind | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...dorms miss out on the real advantage of the Harvard Houses, the intellectual tone created by the direct participation of both tutors and masters in the daily life of the students. Recruiting graduate students or young teachers as head residents, and where possible as resident tutors, may prove a partial answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Couples for the Cliffe | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...commenting on your editorial, "The Case for the College" (CRIMSON of January 28, 1959), a thoughtful and provocative editorial which deserves the highest praise. The editorial itself is a partial refutation of one of its themes, namely, that formal academic requirements absorb too much of the energies of undergraduates, with resultant sacrifices to extra-curricular activities. On the basis of reading the CRIMSON over 40 years; I can only conclude that the CRIMSON reflects the improved quality of our better students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR TEACHERS | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

Though Toure's own constitution for Guinea carries a special article authorizing "the partial or total abandonment of sovereignty in the interest of African unity," he himself has not made up his mind to join the Mali Federation. Yet, as the man who cut loose from France and has so far avoided the disaster that seemed bound to follow, he could well be the figure about whom an increasingly independent French West Africa would rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Vive I' lndependance! | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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