Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Sept. 17 News in Pictures reminds me of Hitler's concentration camps, where victims of racial prejudice had to live behind barbed wire guarded by the SS. Now our own children in some states cannot go to school unless protected by tanks and machine guns. O. BRANCHESI...
...weeks Moscow's world-famed Bolshoi Theater Ballet-scheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Union-had kept London's ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons of scenery already rested on a London dock when balletomanes heard that the company would not come unless British authorities dropped charges against Nina Ponomaryeva, the husky discus thrower who is charged with shoplifting (TIME, Sept. 10); the authorities stood pat. When the Russians decided to come anyway, the three jet airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away...
...German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus), and unless stopped by higher authority, Army missile men may try to beat the Navy to space...
...sophomores signed the petition in 1949. they seemed to be striking a blow for democracy. For years Princeton's 17 private eating clubs, which President Woodrow Wilson tried to abolish, had been taking in the most desirable sophomores and leaving a small, unwanted minority out in the cold. Unless, said the '49 petition, the clubs made sure that every single man got at least one invitation during the annual bicker (bidding), no sophomores would join a club at all. The petition carried the day: the permanent 100% bicker had come to Princeton at last...
...balance, however, it is obvious that merits of the old Houses will outweigh possible attractions of the new. This will certainly be true unless the University allows for certain compensating features...