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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only not subsidize housing for its students in general, and its married students in particular, but that it should charge rents beyond the capacity of many students. Surely Harvard does not assume that everyone seeking an education here has parents or relatives willing or able to aid in their support? I hope I represent a small minority when I state that the condition of my attending school is not only that my wife must engage in full-time work and my children be denied a normal home environment, but also that as a student I must devote 60-70 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARS AND DOLLARS | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...following of leftist nationalists who admire his pronouncements favoring land reform and the socialistic state oil monopoly. He himself is the sort of nationalist who opposes diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., wins conservative admiration as a stabilizing force, warmly admires the U.S. He is hoping to get the support of Kubitschek's Social Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Democracy's Lott | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: All Wet | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

George's father went broke five times, ended up as a builder in Salt Lake City. From the age of twelve, George worked to help support the family, still found time in high school to play football, basketball and baseball. There he met one of the few people ever to make him speechless: a stunning brunette named Lenore Lafount. Even for parents used to the mysterious fixations of adolescence, George was a caution. He decided that Lenore was the girl he was going to marry; just as he later could not understand why people hesitated to buy Ramblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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