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...Masters are said to think that women lower the tone of conversation in the dining halls. Whatever tiny grain of truth this view holds grows tinier by the day. Both the girls and the Houses would benefit from a more natural and relaxed situation--say, interhouse dining every night, without the "escort" provision. Still, what the HCUA proposes would be a vast improvement. By accepting it, the Masters would acknowledge that Harvard and Radcliffe students are equal members of an intellectual community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interhouse | 3/18/1964 | See Source »

...country in simultaneous feuds with the U.S., the Soviet Union and India, the three most populous nations in the world after his own. In fact, he has plunged China into an isolation so complete that he can count as certain allies only tiny North Korea in Asia and even tinier Albania in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Self-Bound Gulliver | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Togoland is a hot, humid and tiny country, 75 miles wide and 330 miles long, named by the Germans, given to the French under a U.N. trusteeship, and stuck like an afterthought on the map of Africa, between Ghana and the even tinier French territory of Dahomey. Of all French African territories, it is closest to independence. At the same time, it has seemed closest to France. Since 1956 the government has been safely in the hands of Premier Nicolas Grunitzky, a naturalized French citizen and member of the French National Assembly. The boss of the ruling political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOGOLAND: Masters in Our Own House | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember," she reminded her mother before air time, "it's just another show"), she mulled over homework in an oversized kitchen (to make her look even tinier than her 4 ft. 9 in.), and with her cairn terrier, Rusty, climbed aboard her -magic chair and soared through the air to Wonderville with much the same success as Judy Garland heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Susan in Wonderville | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Baron of Beer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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