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...hostile to him, his party, and all that he stands for. The Labour delegates have presumably reconciled themselves in advance to the fact that during their tour they will be photographed, filmed, recorded for radio, and exhaustively written up by the worldwide Communist "disinformation" net work; that their simplest expressions of thanks to their hosts will be represented as prostrations before the might and glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron curtain. They presumably think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WHAT TO SEE IN CHINA | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Charles Hedkvist sadly reported that postwar dreams of developing a sonar system to help the blind find their way are years short of fulfillment. Guide dogs are too costly for most of the world's blind, so the most widely useful device is still the oldest and simplest-the cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...simplest way for the Housing Registry to enforce fair practices would be to require landladies to list the number of their vacancies, as well as the price of each. If PBH would then encourage students to report all instances of discrimination, it could treat each violation separately. All landladies who refused to stop unfair treatment should be dropped from the housing list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea and Prejudice | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

Section instruction in all six courses should receive particular attention. Teaching fellows are ordinarily graduate students in science, unfamiliar with the methods of explaining their field on its simplest level. Problem solving, the terror of most students, yet vital for an understanding of fundamental principles is especially hard to teach. Graduate students in the School of Education who are preparing for a career in science teaching would be better suited to conduct sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natural Sciences: Fact vs. Fancy | 4/14/1954 | See Source »

They were not the oldest life of all. Though simple in structure, they are complicated chemically, and so must be the products of slow evolution. Their simplest forebears may reach back into time another billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oldest Life | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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