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The Marx Brotherhood. Plodding on through the Northern farm states and into the Northwest, Kefauver worked hard at flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. IN KALEIDOSCOPE | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The history of the club and the longbow and the musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Without Profit Promises a New Epoch | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Daland also thinks that faculty members soften their actual views in order to appear less objectionable to students. "If I became known as some radical character," Daland says, "then I would reduce my usefulness to the University." Students at Alabama are unprepared to hear that Negroes are in no way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Moderation' Fails at U. of Alabama | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

In one under-the-table document, the Army bitterly charged that overemphasis on airpower has left the U.S. "grossly unprepared to deal with the Communist threat." The outraged Air Force lashed back in a paper holding that land forces will play only minor roles in future wars. To make the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Psychological Warfare | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Despite such advance warnings, most Washington educators were unprepared for the problems that integration has imposed. Commented one principal, whose school is now 60% Negro: "It's largely a matter of economic background. There's just nothing to build on. We have to give them some foundation before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration's Headaches | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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