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...them. Moreover, on the record, the only man of modern times who could beat Willie was the man who took away Willie's title of Featherweight (126 Ibs.) Champion of the World three years ago, Sandy Saddler. Last week, as part of his announced program of keeping in trim for another bout with Sandy one of these days, Old Master Pep, 31, stepped into the ring with a youngster named Lulu Perez, 20, who a year ago was just good enough to be a sparring partner for Willie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exit the Old Master | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Books & Men. Back at Harvard, Pusey eventually turned out a Ph.D. thesis on 4th century Athenian law. Meanwhile, he took two trips abroad, traveled in Greece, explored the cathedrals and palaces of Rome. In 1936 he married a trim Bryn Mawr graduate named Anne Woodward, whom he had once tutored in algebra back in Iowa. By that time he had begun "teaching my way across the country"-at Lawrence. Scripps College in California, and Wesleyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Olivetti's workers in Ivrea get low-cost meals in a company cafeteria, free med ical care, have summer camps and a kindergarten for their children. A substantial number (15%) live in trim, modern Olivetti housing projects; their wages (average: $80 a month), while low by U.S. standards, are among the highest in Italian industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Thinker from Ivrea | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...trouble." Probably the first place the economy-minded will look is at the $5.4 billion item for foreign aid ($4.3 billion military, $1.1 billion economic-technical), which is down only $100 million from this year. Another predictable congressional urge, especially in an election year, will be to try to trim taxes below the Eisenhower program, e.g., by raising the income-tax exemption from $600 to $700, for a loss of $2 billion in revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: The Test of Necessity | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...trim little woman of 52, in a neat linen dress and high-heeled shoes, clip-clopped across a marble floor in Havana's Comodoro Yacht Club last week and faced a combined audience of Cuban doctors and members of the cruising Pan American Medical Association.- Dr. Jose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Senora R. | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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