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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blind since his freshman year in high school. A graduate of St. John's University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Their Best | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Izvestia (Information) trooped into the office of Editor in Chief Konstantin A. Gubin for the planyorka, or editorial conference. At the same time, 14 blocks north, Pavel A. Satyukov, editor in chief of Pravda (Truth), Moscow's other big morning paper, summoned the top members of his staff. There was no debate over policy. There was some debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions. But the planyorka was no more than a ritual. Within 15 minutes it was over at both papers. The editors filed back to their cubbyholes (there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Is Not Truth | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Making a Profit. Physically, both papers resemble U.S. newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Is Not Truth | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Klein is Nixon's second appointee this year, in what is recognized as the building of a presidential campaign staff. The first: Robert H. Finch, chairman of Los Angeles County's Republican Central Committee and another old California friend, who went to Washington in January as Nixon's administrative assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nixon's Hagerty | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Robinson walked into M.I.T.'s offices and suggested that Griswold and the trustees needed a research staff to back up their own investment judgment. He had the right background. True, he had been born in Seattle, but only by a quirk of fate (his engineer father had taken his family there while working on a construction job). He was indisputably a Boston product. He had gone to Noble & Greenough and Harvard (1920), taken a dutiful fling at engineering, gone back to Harvard Business School to study finance, put in his time in a Boston investment banking house. The trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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