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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was his most aggressive passage, and brought loud cheers. No such aggressive note marked his references to the Communists, but he warned that peace is not to be had simply by the seeking. "This would be the most fateful moment for the free nations to relax their comradeship and preparations," he said. "To fail to maintain our defense up to the limit of our strength would be to paralyze every beneficent tendency towards peace both in Europe and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace Is Possible | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

After retiring from office last December, ex-President Miguel Aleman wound up some of his more pressing personal affairs in Mexico City and went off to relax under the pleasure domes of Paris. As General Leon Osorio began shooting off charges back home that his administration had siphoned off about 7 billion pesos ($800 million) of public funds, some observers in Mexico City suggested that Aleman had retired to Europe for substantially the same reason his good friend Bill O'Dwyer had settled down in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Miguel's Travels | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...dollars are always kept on hand. As an invitation to female gamblers, 60% of Harold's 330 carefully schooled dealers are women (who they have also discovered are "more reliable, more honest and possess better personalities [as dealers] than do men"). For customers who want to relax between long stretches at the tables, five bars are always open. But Harold's, which does not want them to relax so much that they have no time to gamble, sells no food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: How to Win a Buck | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...mystery of Public Health is its vitality. The school hums with activity. The answer may be that men who might normally relax, secure that they have a job for life, are out hustling to get funds to carry on their research...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Public Health --- The World's Welfare | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

...physics requirement will pose a few problems for students entering the field next year. If they have taken Physics 11 during their freshman year, or have taken 11a during this spring term and plan to take 11b next fall they can relax as far as the physics requirement is concerned. But students who have not taken any Physics will have to take the now three term Physics 12 to be initiated next fall. Students planning to concentrate in Physical Sciences who have taken Physics 1 during their freshman year will have to take two terms of Physics 12 without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

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