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...happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...
...Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified for the most stubborn cases, declares this controversial technique has proved "more successful than any previously reported...
...Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch (TIME,' Aug. 31, 1953). In crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction, had already put up some of the best in glass, aluminum and steel that...
...Vichy government gave the Nazis permission to let German aircraft use Syrian bases. In a savage, month-long campaign, British and Free French forces (who began the invasion with the proclaimed intention of giving Syria independence) overwhelmed 35,000 stubborn Vichy troops. The Free French almost immediately began to retreat from their promises of freedom, but France's wartime weakness gave her old Mideast rival Britain an irresistible opportunity. In 1945, when rioting broke out in Damascus, Winston Churchill compelled the French to confine their troops in Syria to barracks. Within two months Syria was for all practical purposes...
Ever since stubborn old Nicholas ("The General") Schenck was eased aside as boss of Loew's Inc. in 1955, the world's biggest moviemaker has teetered on the brink of open corporate warfare (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). The prize: control of Loew's $220.6 million in assets, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Last week the battle was joined, and the cannonading could be heard from Manhattan to Hollywood. President Joseph R. Vogel, Loew's third boss in two years, called a special stockholders' meeting for Sept. 12, charged that a dissident group on Loew...