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...police lieutenant stamped inside each bus. "Wipe that smile off your face," he barked. "You guys are in real trouble. What are you laughing for? Just because you guys go to Harvard and have a lot of money is no reason for you to take advantage of us. I'd just as soon book you all in a minute. Some of us went to school...

Author: By Jack Rosenthai., | Title: The Red Coats Are Coming | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Central Television Service, Inc. (with the help of a psychologist) for its own and fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Honor Bright | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...General Assembly, "is . . . establishing an international order of peace and justice. Yet, for over three years, there was a war in Korea. A war in Indo-China still goes on. Nowhere is there a sense of security . . . Physical scientists have now found means which, if they are developed, can wipe life off the surface of this planet. These words that I speak are words that can be taken literally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Contagious Faith | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

They sought recruits in homes and prisons, saloons and parish houses, burlesque theaters and offices, then interrogated them in private. They took notes in a code which was nowhere written down, and preserved only in the memories of the four. They never traveled together, lest an accident wipe out their secret with them. Coded and catalogued, the facts were locked away, and the book written from them printed in utmost secrecy. Last week presses clattered, turning out pages that were scrupulously counted to make sure that none got away before publication date (Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Medical scientists now have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death from Neglect | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

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