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...Gerald F. Doherty '50, the sponsor of the bill, admitted yesterday that the proposed act "may smack of unconstitutionality," but insisted that some legislation was necessary in order to prevent exploitation of students by so-called "diploma factories...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Bill OK's College Charter Revocation | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

...latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Roll Call | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...current flap over the sudden awakening of these men to the un-American nature of their clubs seems to smack more of the old grandstand play than of any enlightenment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...social pathos of this kind slip into the maudlin, nor is it difficult to err the other way and harden a story to the point where it no longer engages sympathy at all (for example, The Four Hundred Blows. De Sica chooses the middle way, recording scenes that smack so authentically of life that the viewer often feels as though he were intruding. The actors, who are really non-actors chosen because they had no previous experience, respond to each crisis with simplicity, and without stagy affection. They are what they are: normal, undevious people in a bad spot...

Author: By Raymond A. Soxolov jr., | Title: The Bicycle Thief and Ivan, Part I | 1/8/1962 | See Source »

...regular flow of arms and supplies was moving north to Katanga from Northern Rhodesia, the British-backed territory run by Tshombe's white friend, Rhodesian Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky. Purpose: a new buildup of Katanga army units now making their headquarters at Kipushi, a mining town smack on the Katanga-Rhodesian frontier. Sir Roy denied all, and boarded a plane for a personal inspection on the Katanga frontier to make certain that no war contraband was getting through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Unsafe Little Kingdom | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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