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In the Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: What's Wrong? | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Like any other potent social medicine, government assistance to the needy often causes unpleasant side effects. The welfare state means new security for the millions who do not share the nation's affluence. But it also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Welfare City | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

As he did in his novels (I Can Get It For You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp), Weidman writes about unpleasant parents, nasty children, World War II (his civilians feel guilty about not seeing combat), Manhattan's Lower East Side, marriage, and the sort of women who, 25 years ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Defeats | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

Sophomore Standing was also designed to improve American education by rewarding schools that gave particularly good preparation. The College's privileges of leadership have given rise to serious and somewhat unpleasant obligations. The Administration feels, for example, that abandoning Soph Standing is absolutely out of the question because it would...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Sophomore Standing: The Making of a Policy | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

The experience of the suicide student is obviously not universal. There are some students for whom studying is never a problem. They have decided very early on a professional career and go about methodically achieving it; or they never challenge the authority of their parents; or they have a terrible...

Author: By Allan Kats, | Title: The Academic Suicide: Escape From Freedom | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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