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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oaths and affidavits of this sort are especially distasteful when they are required of young people who are just entering upon the most important phase of their educational experience," since they represent a "lack of confidence," Griswold concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Protests Anti-Subversive Oath | 1/23/1959 | See Source »

...requested an equal share of the theatre's facilities, charged MeBAC with unfair discrimination. Alan Tepper, the group's lawyer, argued that proposed state aid to the Arts Center would amount to a "full subsidy" to the Cambridge Drama Festival, "which may well put a theatre of our sort of out business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatre Groups Clash at Hearings On Arts Center | 1/23/1959 | See Source »

...began to talk about the courses he taught. "My seminar in the evolution of cannibal weapons, I sort of look at as a lab course. This semester we're concentrating on the properties of curare. I also give the lectures for the first term in Soc Sci 9; I present the Jivarros as a curtain raiser to Western culture--keeps the students from becoming culture bound...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Heart of Darkness | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

POLICE TERROR in Russia was all the fault of the late liquidated Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, an "adventurer . . . a sort of businessman in politics" (laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Muzhik Man | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Leopard Skin. Among the blacks there had sprung up a quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: If Blood Must Run | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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