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One of the first steps of most TIME foreign correspondents on a new assignment is to hire a tutor for language lessons. Even the most fluent linguists usually need a refresher course in such staples as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Some other languages with which TIME correspondents have...
The Red regiments came in leapfrog from four directions, battalion by battalion. They had rehearsed their attack for days against replicas of the French strongpoints. Each Red packed unusual firepower: belts of high-explosive containers, a submachine gun, a dozen grenades, a rifle or pistol, and a long-bladed knife...
Introductory language courses meeting eight hours a week will form the basis of the Middle East teaching program. Every student will be required to attain a reading knowledge of one of the languages of the area--modern Arabic, Turkish, or Persian--some, two or more of them.
Chill mists hung low over besieged Dienbienphu, and gecko lizards croaked in the night. From the hills, Communist General Giap's loudspeaker blared at the defenders in Vietnamese, French, Arabic and German: "Surrender or die." The 15,000 French Union defenders did not bother to reply. But back at...
Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, J. A. C. Fagginer Auer, Parkman Professor of Theology, and William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic, leave the faculty on July 1 because of age. Cadbury is 71, Auer 72, and Thomson 66. While the regular retirement age is 65, professors are often...