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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itching] were only temporary and would subside. After a week of these distressing symptoms, they would be given some of the routine pectate preparations and more reassurance. By the end of the third week after having been starved, given anti- spasmodics and various internal and external medications to no avail, they sought the aid of the gastroenterologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misuse of Antibiotics | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Happy Jail | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...then listed: (1) preparation of a bibliography; (2) actually doing the research work; (3) advice on any part of the work that the writer wishes to do himself; (4) preparation of a typewritten bond; and (5) preparation of a final copy to be turned in. "The thesis writer may avail himself of any or all of these possibilities. . .," the letter continued...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Students Graduate With False Theses | 10/20/1955 | See Source »

...Bill Haley and his comets, teenagers all over the country had begun to "Rock Around the Clock." Another film with Sheree North's controversial interpretation of Rock n Roll was followed by a sharp rise in the "juvenile delinquency" rate, and subsequent protests from law enforcement agencies. To no avail. Rock n Roll shows signs of lasting...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: "Flip Flop n Fly" | 10/6/1955 | See Source »

...conservative Financial Times, "is directly competitive with vital exports ... It seems increasingly likely that [the H-bomb] has turned the cold war into a prolonged struggle for economic domination of the world. In that struggle ... capacity of the British steel industry or the level of British exports may avail more in the end than current military strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Detente & Defense | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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