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...veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known as a liberator of men?" At week's end King Mohammed V and his daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Counter-measures | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present was "the saturnine poet Paul Verlaine who gave his arm to a charming young person named Miss Rimbaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prince of Poets | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Program for Harvard College specifies the addition of three more dental chairs. This program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Eye for an Eye | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...company that does succeed in providing prompt and efficient service, the rewards are well worth the effort. Starting in 1903, Detroit Edison Co. began giving customers free light bulbs, largely as a publicity stunt, soon went on to free electric cords and fuses. Last year the company sent 275 repairmen on 160,000 fuse calls, 138,000 stove-service assignments, 456,000 other appliance missions, charging nothing for labor and only for parts totaling more than $1. The company knows that nothing cuts electricity sales faster than a dead light bulb, a dead dishwasher, a dead freezer. And though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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