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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With the Left Hand | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment: Oxford | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

"The victory cannot be far," sang the somber chorus. "The world then becomes a Red star." The tumid cantata swelled across the famed campus; Communist Germany's goat-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Kill a University | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

When Kao got back home last year, he wrote Abdel advising him to find a school and get to work at his studies. Abdel picked out the Protestant-supported American Mission School for Boys, and Kao arranged to get him admitted this fall. Kao flew back to Cairo this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Goal Is Good | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Change in the Morning. In a way that scientists still do not fully comprehend, the pigment changes its chemical structure when red light hits it. As long as the red light lasts, the new structure persists. When the light dies, the pigment begins slowly to change back to its original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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