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Teams from the Debate Council and Cambridge University in England will debate this afternoon via trans-Atlantic cable. Arguing in a semi-humorous vein on "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," will be James Lorenz '60, John Ferren '59, and Gregory M. Harvey '59 for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Debate | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond the Tractor | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Whatever might be conventional in the story, Guinness makes fresh. He is successively tyrannical and repentent, modest and lecherous. Though his moods change quickly, there is always that vein of demonic, supremely British humor which is characteristic of Guinness. Yet this film has a certain scope which surpasses anything which Guinness has previously done. He couples his perceptive humor with Cary's unique character, and the result is almost monumental...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

...three months." The "stuff," explained Sharon Pollard, 21, and now in jail for smuggling a revolver to her jailed boy friend and partner in crime, comes from a 75? inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last week the abuse of amphetamine was growing so fast that it had the Kansas City police, Missouri legislators, federal officials, even the U.S. Congress seriously concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amphetamine Kicks | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Finding a Vein. For them there is a continuous struggle for survival after the first few months, during which, like Marclan, most victims show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sickle Threat | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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