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Examination proctors twice a year take their toll of undergraduate nerves and patience by often creating as much tension as the blue books they distribute. Since they apparently operate under the theory that students will cheat if they can, some proctors prowl around the examination room like watchdogs, emitting an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Evil Eye | 2/11/1956 | See Source »

I have been keeping a close watch for the letters printed in your columns in regard to the Arab-Israel issue. It is, therefore, very unpleasant to read in one of them that the gentiles don't understand and don't care [Dec. 19]. Do the Jews really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

In the aftermath of war, when allies are no longer in arms against the common peril, there arises the unpleasant problem of which ally must pay the other for services rendered. After World War I. the canard spread that France had even collected rent for the use of trenches on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Account Rendered | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Moreover, the failure of religious sensibility is involved with a painful lapse of taste. The protagonist of the piece is not just any clergyman, but is plainly modeled on Hungary's Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. In passing its judgment on the imaginary cardinal, the film implies a judgment-before all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

At a time when a majority of Britons are producing more, eating better, living in better houses and earning higher wages than ever before in history, Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler had an unpleasant duty to perform. On the first day of a new parliamentary session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Butler in the Kitchen | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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