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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually arranged through corporation heads and medical directors, never without a physician's referral. The subject's colleagues and family supply background data before his visit. He is expected to show up for Sunday dinner, stay until Saturday afternoon. In those six days he gets a thorough going-over by psychologists and psychiatrists, but no hint of psychoanalysis-there is not a couch in the place. The only strict rule: every subject must take daily walks over the surrounding hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Checks for Execs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Liberal Union is "considering making a protest" in the form of a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee over passage of a four-year extension of the draft, president James M. Bardeen '60 disclosed last night. The Liberal Union sent a statement to the committee urging a thorough study of the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Criticizes Draft Extension; Butler to Speak | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I, The Jury | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

...conclusion, the report expressed the hope that a thorough study of the problem would not only put the draft on a fairer basis, but would "lessen our dependence on the draft, or perhaps eliminate it entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Attacks Extension of Present Draft | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

...factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Education Race | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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