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...stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because it "would impair faith in the U.N. if we were to authorize the unifi cation of Korea by force against North Korea after [resisting] North Korea's attempt to unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going it alone. Said the President: "It was indeed a crime that [North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: KOREA: THREE YEARS OF WAR | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...have been trying to do since prohibition. It is unfortunate, but we are watching suspicious individuals," an angry Judge John Connolly said in court. But what Connolly wanted was not what the College wanted. A poll of undergraduates on the Volstead Act showed that 1159 men were for modifi- cation--light wines and beer--781 were for complete repeal, while only 768 were for enforcement...

Author: By David L. Halbersiam, | Title: De-Emphasis, Nassau Rift Marked 1928's Sophomore, Junior Years | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

...down through western culture to ancient Greece . . . The founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher edu cation beyond the mere cultivation of the intellect to the preparation for life in a free society and the discovery and fulfillment of man's ultimate purpose on the universe. These aims are well represented here today by an honorable company of colleges and universities sharing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Family Reunion | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Greatest honor that Oberammergau has to offer is the role of Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Christus | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...answers were brought forward by the University president to the question, "Why should the citizens of a relatively wealthy state be taxed to help the edu- cation in poorer states?" He said that 1) the nation's youth are "future citizens of the entire country" and (2) the people of the U. S. are mobile so that the school child of a poor area is the potential inhabitant of a wealthy city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Urges Public School Subsidization | 4/10/1947 | See Source »

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