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...Brunei has become a rich country with an annual income exceeding $40 million, and the money, coming in faster than the nation can find a way to spend it, is buying a better life for every one of the 60,000 men, women and children in the Sultanate. "You rub your eyes and begin to count the miracles that are taking place in this Green Desert of Borneo," cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Paul Hurmuses after a visit to Brunei last week, "and you find there is no end to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRUNEI: The Well-Oiled State | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Perhaps the Dean was trying to say that there is a pattern of life which is contagious, a way of thinking and feeling which will occasionally rub off if there is sufficient enforced exposure, and that in some mysterious way people will be the better for acquiring this habit. At least this seems to be the theory behind both the maze of often contradictory demands made upon Harvard undergraduates, and the claims made by administrators...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Molding a Man Through 'Liberal' Education | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...Flagstad. But the star of the occasion was Rodzinski himself. Perched on a high stool in the pit, he mimed every emotion, sprang up repeatedly to sustain notes with sure baton sweeps. During breaks in the four-hour, 50-minute evening he changed dripping shirts, gave himself an alcohol rub, gulped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trionfo for Tristan | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Pall Mall Gazette, in its leading editorial chimed, "By all means let young England rub shoulders with young America on the cinder path or anywhere else and the oftener the better...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...president of Johns Hopkins University, at Eisenhower Adviser Paul Hoffman and at White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams. Said Edgar: "Hoffman's made a flop of everything he ever put his hand to. Adams and I certainly don't see alike. In fact, we rub each other the wrong way, but I think he has tremendous influence with Dwight. I know Dwight listens to him all the time. He's indicated that about Milton too. They're all too liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What Edgar Said | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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