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...Communists fail with a program of building youth clubs, so that churches now outnumber clubhouses in some areas, but the churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold or by impassable roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Importance of Atheism | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Nuclear Physicist Enrico Perm!, 1938 Nobel Prize winner, who started the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, dropped in at the University of Rochester, picked up a Doctor of Science degree, his eighth honorary diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Army Department early this month denied John K. Fairbank '29 professor of History, a military perm to enter Japan, but the decision is now under review. Fairbank had received a year's leave of absence from the University to teach in a Japanese university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Prevents Professor Fairbank From Travelling to Japan to Teach | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...Army Department early this month denied John K. Fairbank '29 professor of History, a military perm to enter Japan, but the decision is nov under review. Fairbank had received a year's leave of absence from the University to teach in a Japanese university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Prevents Professor Fairbank From Travelling to Japan to Teach | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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