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...France, the West's tough, new line is referred to pointedly as "the American policy." Though De Gaulle's sweeping powers have virtually reduced the French people to kibitzers, a nuclear war over Berlin is unthinkable to the pragmatic Frenchman sipping vermouth in his sidewalk cafe. With the French army tied up in Algeria, the thought of even a limited-war tactic such as driving an armored column through to a blockaded Berlin frightens the French, who are only 150 miles from Russian armies in East Germany. "To deliberately create such an international crisis in the thermonuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Wanted: Diplomacy | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...midnight, the hopefuls were jamming the sidewalk on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. One pregnant woman perched precariously on a fireplug. At 1 a.m. the mad milliner of the magnificent mile, Benjamin Benedict Greenfield, strolled into view, bareheaded, nodding to women with familiar bees in their bonnets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Mad Hatter | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

Nose to Nose. Quickly, the Fall River Plan spread to nearby towns. Teenagers, backed by parents, staged pop concerts, cake sales, manned sidewalk booths, highway "toll stations,'' ran a dress shop. Fradkin meanwhile pushed his plan by letter, phone, or nose-to-nose persuasion, got more inquiries than he could handle. Last year he organized the communities with do-it-yourself scholarship plans into the loosely knit Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., charged a $50 chartering fee to pay for a rented typewriter, phone bills, and the salary of the sole employee of the foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Do-lt-Yourself Scholarships | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Sidewalk Prophets Predict...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Mrs. Bunting Restores 'Climate of Expectation' | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

When fourth President Wilbur K. Jordan announced in Spring, 1959, his intention to resign, the sidewalk property whispered that Radcliffe might never have another president. Late in May a giggle of cartoonists filled the front pages of the CRIMSON with their speculations about Jordan's successor. They imagined everything from a specially adapted Univac to a self-prepared Harvard undergraduate. They couldn't have been more wrong...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Mrs. Bunting Restores 'Climate of Expectation' | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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