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...talking too much about July 20," said South Viet Nam's doughty little President Ngo Dinh Diem. "Dates aren't important, but action is." Last week in Diem's resurgent country, July 20 came and went. There was no disorder, no rioting, no sudden blow by sneaker-wearing Communists from the North, nothing to mark the fact that July 20, 1956 was in effect the date accepted after the Geneva Conference of 1954 for elections to unite North and South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: All Quiet on the 17th Parallel | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Chipped beef is moving in to replace golden apples in the Lowell House dining hall, sneaker-clad feet are beginning to wend their way toward libraries instead of rehearsals, and the College's Herculean theatre season at last draws to a thumping close. At this point the stage-struck undergraduate, like the Wall Street speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apples | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once their own. Most of them are followers of the former Mufti of Jerusalem, who used to recruit men to fight both the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Trouble In Gaza | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...really did not look better with that flat look and low waist-line. Instead, she has taken on that bulky look while trimming her jersey and wool with cuffs, collars, buttons and fur. The girls have discovered that men do not like the Radcliffe white shirt and dirty sneaker wardrobe and are making an honest attempt to acquire the appearance and air of well dressed and sophisticated young ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Style Be Your Guide | 12/10/1954 | See Source »

Shirley keeps half a dozen pairs of identical spectacles so that she can be sure to find one pair when she needs it. She is a great food sneaker, and loves breads, rich desserts, ice cream and candy. She does her heaviest eating when she's upset. As a child, Shirley stopped spending her allowance on candy once she discovered that a 10? can of condensed milk, eaten with a spoon, is the sweetest thing there is. Asked this summer to name the foods she would most like to have on a desert island. Shirley said: "Fudge, brownies, chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouper | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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