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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce rate is almost three times that of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...that we drink all the time." Cops check identification as carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beer & the Beach | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...point there was no argument: the frugal French are most frugal with water. In the villages, the committee found, "water is employed with parsimony." But wine keeps flowing at the same rate even when the price goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Thy Stomach's Sake | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

After more than 700 experiments conducted by about 150 people on 27,000-odd seeds and seedlings, concludes Experimenter Loehr, "our research has shown . . . that prayer can make a difference in the speed of seed germination and in the rate and vigor of plant growth. This in turn demonstrates two things: 1) that prayer is fact, and 2) that scientific laboratory research can be done in basic religious fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Power of the Brief Burst | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...various media. The courses are not directed to architectural design but are rather concerned with having the student gain experience with "the fundamentals of design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree, to the writing courses of MacLeish and the composition courses of Piston...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Design School Pioneers in Creative Approach | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

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