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...years on," she says. And yet it is this period that Mrs. Robinson likes best, when theses are due and pile up in her office, when honors records must be prepared, and when mark-seeking students either line up far out into the Holyoke. House hallway or just swarm wildly into Room 8. For it is then, she says, that "I can finally see some results coming out of my work...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Secretaries: Keepers of the Wheels | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

...past, however, not everybody who would like to visit Europe between June and September will be able to make it. There is always the financial obstacle, of course, but almost equally prohibitive this summer is the record total of half a million American vacationer who are preparing to swarm across the Atlantic...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Europe Beckons to Local Students, But Also to 500,000 Other Tourists | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

...country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Travelogue | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Plus-Three: The day of climax. At 0100, Giap hurls part of his third and only fresh division against Dienbienphu's untouched northwest strongpoint. Its code name: Huguette. The French here are outnumbered six or eight to one. The defenses crumble. By 0400, the Communists locust-swarm over two of Huguette's five or six outposts. One 50-man suicide squad infiltrates the French center, gets within 200 yards of De Castries' command post before it is wiped out. De Castries calls out staff officers, cooks, orderlies, switchboard operators for the infantry fight. Reports sift out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: He Who Holds Out | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Another wonderful invention that revolutionized the space-tugging business in about 2500 A.D. was the magnetic field grapple. First used in towing the "Reliance" after she had been bombarded by an uncharted swarm of meteorites, it thereafter saved many a derelict from disaster...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Ooop, Glumf | 4/2/1954 | See Source »

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