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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David C. Weber, Senior Assistant to the Director in the College Library, revealed yesterday that part of the material had been carefully examined this summer and that trivial administrative documents including "records of office supplies such as pencils and pads," had been removed by government authorities, presumably to be burned...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Government Removes Half Of Classified Documents | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

...late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Modern McGuffey | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors, including one group of 33 Polish architects, proved that in the struggle for Berlin good architecture is a good weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stage for Freedom | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...hired by Tata to handle construction and engineering (since Jamsetj Tata's time the company has traditionally looked to the U.S. for technicians), assembled a work force of 14,000 Indians who put in 18 or more hours a day. The new section will pour steel next summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fifty Years of Tata | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

ROMAN TALES, by Alberto Moravia (229 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), seems to concern the ignoblest Romans of them all. Moravia's people live in small tenement rooms, work in brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Short Stories | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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