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Another Spring half-course will be Government 113, "Latin American Politics and Government," offered by John N. Plank '45, teaching fellow in Government. Two graduate seminars, "World Politics, World Order and International Law," and "Defense Policy and Administration," led respectively by Stanley H. Hoffman and Henry A. Kissinger '50, will be added to the curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Add Courses in Fall | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back to me." Néfissa's answer to those who clutched at her arms and clothing: "Vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Kif-kif la Fran | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...color. Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: QUESTION MARKS IN COLOR | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Governor Furcolo's budget calling for a three per cent state sales tax is "ill-considered and a garish violation of the first plank of the Democratic party platform," Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, declared yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soloway Hits Furcolo's Proposal for Sales Tax | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Ultimate Test. In Cooksville, Ont, Gregory Taylor was acquitted of driving with ability impaired by liquor when the constable who arrested him testified that Taylor twice walked successfully across a 2-in.-by-8-in. plank over a 12-ft. sewer excavation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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