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His enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Vengeance for the Druzes | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

The work of a Supreme Court Justice is so intellectually demanding, that when Potter Stewart arrived from a grueling enough U.S. appeals court in 1958, his first reaction was, "I can't do this." In 1962, after only five years on the bench, the strain forced Justice Charles Whittaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

The College has moved to abolish one of the last vestiges of rugged individualism. Sectioning this year for limited enrollment courses will be determined regardless of time or order of application. In the past, the first students on, line were admitted to courses, and going to the College's Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Sectioning Reforms Encourage More Sleep | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

To the French soldiers who opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: To the Wall | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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