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...solution to the Iranian oil problem. The action, taken with approval of the National Security Council, may prove embarrassing to the Department of Justice, which is pushing an antitrust civil suit against the five biggest oil companies-Standard Oil (N.J.), Texas Co., Standard Oil of California, Gulf, Socony-Vacuum-on charges of conspiring to engage in an international oil-marketing cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Pickett's answer to the vacuum may be sophomore Bob Hook, last year's freshman captain who will probably wrestle after exams. Hook is agile but hasn't Caimi's strength. How well he shapes up may decide the team's success...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Captain Chandler Leads Balanced Wrestling Lineup to Three Victories | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

...pages, it prints-as very few other papers do-pictures and stones about Negroes. The paper doesn't crusade in the manner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TIME, Dec. 21). It aims to nip corruption before it gets a start, as it covers the city like a vacuum cleaner, picking up any small specks of dirt along with everything else. It also never forgets that it is a home-town daily. Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Jack Carson are "Milwaukee movie stars." (But when Pianist Liberace, the "latest Mil-waukeean to hit the big time," triumphantly returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fair Lady of Milwaukee | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...shadings. If one judged Furry on completely moral grounds, his appeal to conscience may seem above reproach. On purely practical grounds, he may not have accomplished very much. We have tried to evaluate the testimony on both its personal courage and practical consequences. Conscience does not exist in a vacuum, and, at times, an individual's noblest acts are, in the end, harmful to the principles he wants to defend. This second editorial is an attempt to further clarify a complicated distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wendell Furry | 1/22/1954 | See Source »

...magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits. To build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 25Bev | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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