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The appalling fact is that, although the U.S. and U.N. have known from the start what North Korea's political problems would be, we have come in almost completely unprepared to deal with them. Perhaps things will improve in time, but meanwhile the people of Pyongyang and of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carrots and Radishes | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Trained Freshman. The work that 42-year-old Lyndon Johnson had cut out for himself was just the kind that had lifted Missouri's Senator Harry S. Truman out of obscurity in World War II. Freshman Johnson was not unprepared for the job. During the war he had run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Texas Watchdog | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

"What is his superb record in Congress?" "Well," said Fitzpatrick, obviously unprepared for such probing, "uh . . . uh . . . Lynch is a member of the Ways and Means Committee-I think that is the name of it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Major Battleground | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

All the angry questions were summed up into one by Congressman Anthony F. Tauriello, a freshman Democrat from Buffalo: Why were the armed forces unprepared for war despite Louis Johnson's assurances to the contrary? Johnson, said Tauriello, had "lost the confidence of the American people" and should resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Albatrosses | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Elementary courses are usually exhaustive and fairly dull. As the student rises in the field, he finds the courses far more interesting, and, despite any rumor to the contrary, a good deal harder. It is usually better to get a firm foundation in the basic courses of the 100 series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physics | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

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