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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occultist Wiesinger recognizes the possibility of the phenomenon known as "possession," though it is extremely difficult to distinguish from some forms of mental illness such as schizophrenia. He cites as "borderline" the case of Maria Talarico in the town of Catanzaro in southern Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ghost Stories | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...fluidity. They tend to be cramped and a little stiff, although decorative and full of imagination. The best pictures are the self-portraits in the second style. Others of these academic attempts do not escape the abyss of the artist's Germanicism. For example, the painting of the French town of Carcasonne looks like a set for a Wagnerian opera. Another landscape, the artist's impression of New York, is more successful and the interpretation is provocative...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: In and Out of the Galleries | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...Council also voted to disband the Town-Gown Relationships Committee. One of the reasons given was that due to the complexity of sociology, the exploration of such problems should be left to better qualified agencies, such as P.B.H. and the Social Relations Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Council Starts Slowly but Surely | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

When Rackley arrived at Jessop Steel, he found an obsolete, junk-filled plant among tall weeds at the edge of town with a $4,100,000 debt, only $7,000 in the bank and 600 sullen workers demanding $300,000 in back wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: From Failure to Failure | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Yourself. Grundig, who quit school at 14 to be an electrician's apprentice, was mustered out of the German army in 1944 to operate a small plant making radio transformers and coils. At war's end he went back to his home town of Fürth and set up shop in a few flea-ridden rented rooms. He hoped to make radios, which were scarce and rationed. But the Allies forbade production of radio equipment. However, they did permit the manufacture of toys, so Grundig turned out a "toy": a knocked-down "Do-It-Yourself" radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Electronics from Germany | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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