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...into the liberal arts program. ROTC courses have been too dull, too detailed. Instead of giving students a chance to flex their minds, they have stressed memorization and routine. At Harvard, for example, this kind of course in the past has taken up four of the seventeen course credits an ROTC man needs to graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms and the Humanist | 3/7/1953 | See Source »

Less than 30 miles off the Alabama coast, the searchers found bits & pieces of wreckage. The DC-6 was down in 100 feet of water; during the day seventeen bodies floated to the surface and were recovered. There seemed to be no doubt that all 46 people aboard had perished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Silence from the Gulf | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...sauntered out the door into the arms of a waiting plainclothesman. At the station, without even bothering to question him, the police sent him straight to Las Heras penitentiary where he was issued the grey pants, jacket and cap of an Argentine convict and thrown into a cell. Seventeen days later, he was suddenly freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Police Power | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Seventeen Crimson track men will help open the 1953 Boston indoor track season tonight in the annual Knights of Columbus track meet at the Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Enters 17 Men In K. of C. Track Meet | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

Inclined to Ike. Seventeen states with 169 electoral votes seem to be leaning to Ike. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOW THEY STAND | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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