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...enchanted audience at the Hasty Pudding Friday afternoon, Siobhan McKenna held forth with strong statements about the state of modern theatre and made this chronic complaint a vivid one. "I am sorry I am late," she said with a trace of Irish brogue, "I was at a party last night." Then, after a preview of Hasty Pudding songs, Miss McKenna sat down to answer questions...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Siobhan McKenna | 1/19/1960 | See Source »

...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Proof for Einstein | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

President Jordan showed in his book that it is possible to trace a definite pattern in this renewed attack on poverty. In the earlier part of the period that he examined, donors gave outright to the relief of the poor. As time passed, they began more and more to set up programs of massive endowment to root out the causes of poverty. They provided for wider educational opportunities, according to Jordan, and they arranged apprenticeship schemes and systematized the buildings and maintenance of hospitals and almshouses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Publishes First of Series, Describes 'Philanthropy in England' | 1/6/1960 | See Source »

Without a Trace. In Dallas, a burglar robbed a tavern, made off with 252 cans of beer and 174 breath-cleansing chlorophyll tablets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...million assemble to hear him, but the contact is more emotional than verbal. What happens is called by Indians darshan, communion. The multitude is somehow comforted and reassured not by the words but by the presence of Nehru. And Nehru himself seems to lose every trace of fatigue, becomes more alive, uninhibited and relaxed, and he returns to his job with his spiritual batteries recharged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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