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In the 20th century only 20 foreigners (not including Tibetans and Nepalese) have visited the big, rambling mountain fort at Punakha that serves as Bhutan's capital. So rugged are Bhutan's passes and so formidable its mountains that the Indian government's political agent makes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BHUTAN: Land of the Dragon King | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Much of the bloom has gone off the "contemporary-modern" and rambling ranch-type dwelling. Many home buyers want architecture to match their climate. Furthermore, so many builders put up cheap imitations of modern designs that even where glassed-in modern houses are suitable, many buyers are going back to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: *BETTER HOUSES ABUILDING- | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Wiggles & Patterns. What goes on inside the U.S. teenager, whose manners and morals seem to arouse such agonized comments? To find out, Gesell and his 13-man staff studied the boys and girls of 200 families living in or around New Haven. The youngsters, no delinquents, came from average middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Normal Problem Child | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Old Saws. At the Mansion House the elite of London's financial and industrial world was waiting to meet them. As they took their seats in the vast gold-columned Egyptian hall, they were serenaded by the Honorable Artillery Company band. Bulganin replied to toasts in a long, rambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Courtiers B. & K. | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

By October 1928 the ministry at Borley parish had stood vacant for some time. Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer the wife of any rector. Its roof leaked; its plumbing was in hopeless disrepair; its corners and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Ghosts of Borley | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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