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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debate thus centered more on the question of a referendum, than on NSA itself. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61 argued that there was no need for a referendum "on a question which the students find quite dull," while Edward A. Segal '60 asserted that the Council, being more aware of NSA's activities, should act as a representative body and make its own decision...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Supports NSA, Rejects NDEA Findings | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...says. "In fact, it cost me nothing. I teach a course at U.C.L.A. one night a week, and my income from that is enough to cover the boy's education." Kao finds it strange that this should interest anyone. "Really, I do not understand why anyone should question why someone helps someone else. If you are capable, you help. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Goal Is Good | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...mention of politics. "When you've just had an election," said Cecil King, "the course is set for the next five years. Women readers particularly have had a bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying to get rid of its middle-age spread, had not exchanged it for a case of second childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accent on Youth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...shown that the girls, joined for 5 in. down the middle of their chests and abdomens, had separate digestive tracts. Radiopaque dyes, injected into the bloodstream, had shown that each had two kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication of heart trouble (therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Separation Surgery | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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