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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fosca wanted to unite all Italy in the 15th century. He failed. He took service under Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519) in the hope of uniting Europe. This was a flop, too. As adviser to Spain's Don Carlos (1500-1558), Fosca decided that the New World was the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Methuselah | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

The breakthrough into new military ideas was long overdue. In the last decade the U.S. spent $327 billions on defense, but had no military doctrine for anything short of World War III. The age of the double deterrent, of the pistol and the claw, is not a pretty prospect. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PISTOL AND THE CLAW: New military policy for age of atom deadlock | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Chemistry is one of the sciences that became important before it knew what it was doing. The old, half-magician alchemists of the Middle Ages were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

As a result of a tour of the House libraries taken by Reynolds and Lamont Librarian Phillip J. McNiff, officials are no longer saying "no" categorically when pressed to extend Lamont hours during exam period. They now are willing to "approach the problem from a rational viewpoint and counter our...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Cautions Conservatives on SFA; McNiff Will Consider Lamont Changes | 10/26/1954 | See Source »

¶ The Sisters of the Divine Spirit, a newly established U.S. Roman Catholic order for teaching and social work, with relatively relaxed rules (including a yearly vacation for members), showed off a radically modernized habit (see cut) that looked more like a chic town suit than nuns' garb. Designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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