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...only planks; the only light came through small, high windows that they were forbidden to look out of. They never saw each other, were not even sure whether the others were alive. The only time that they were ever out of their cells, except for escorted trips to the toilet, was for questioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Over the Bridge | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...anyone else read it. Instead, he went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who warned Winchell that if he printed the document the FBI would be obliged to arrest him. About eight or ten days later, Winchell testified, he burned the document and flushed it down a hotel toilet like the good, security-conscious naval officer he is (Lieut. Commander, U.S.N.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who, Me? | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...House. In Douglas, Ariz., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garcia told police that although their neighbors on four sides had noticed nothing suspicious during the Garcia's six-month absence, their house had been stripped of a bed, cupboards, tables, four chairs, a medicine cabinet, windows, plumbing pipes, faucets, toilet, light bulbs and clothesline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Gerald Caplan of the Harvard School of Public Health: "We are beginning to realize that there are no rigid prescriptions for successful personality development-as, for example, whether the child should be breast-fed or bottle-fed, given early or late toilet training, disciplined by spankings or not. These things have different meanings in different families. A healthy parent-child relationship is characterized by sensitivity to the child's individual needs at any particular moment [which may be] in the realm of freedom or control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: MOTHER KNOWS BEST | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...Congressmen. Illiteracy is high: one out of every six adult Kentuckians has less than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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