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...specter of Yale's IBM wasteland was raised earlier this year by rumors about the Elder Committee's report. After six months of study, the Committee recommended sweeping changes in the method of assigning freshmen to the Houses. Despite the reluctance of Faculty members to discuss the exact proposals, the rumors were, distressingly, not far wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Way | 2/26/1964 | See Source »

...might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suburbs: Middle-Aged Myth | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm and as magnetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Jan. 10, 1964 | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Broadway NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm, and as magnetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...physicists will concentrate 40% of Antarctica's $7,000,000 scientific budget on studies of the upper atmosphere to learn more about cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena that interrupt radio communications. In the past year, other experts have slogged thousands of miles to map the uncharted wasteland, dived deep below the ice to study the metabolism of seals. They have located the world's southernmost volcano, analyzed bacteria left by explorers 50 years ago (the tinned food and biscuits left by Captain Robert Scott's men in 1902 are still there today, perfectly edible), mined coal-proving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica: Unlocking the Icebox | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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