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...distant sound about it. The diehard majority of British settlers is sure to oppose it, and to try to sabotage any attempt at implementation; the settlers can say, with reason, that conditions for peaceful transfer of land between races do not now exist. But some day soon in darkest East Africa, a start must somehow be made; something new must be offered the Africans in place of blood-cults and drums, prejudice and pangas flashing in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Open the Highlands | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Darkest California. In Los Angeles, Patrick C. Kimball reported that thieves had broken into his garage, departed with 20 poison-tipped darts, two 8-ft. blow-guns and a white man's shrunken head valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...ever got. The farm and labor voters decamped to Robert La Follette's Progressives. Bryan remained lukewarmly loyal to the party (his brother, Nebraska's Governor Charles W. Bryan, was the Democratic nominee for Vice President). And, for all his urbanity and dignity. John Davis, the darkest of dark horses, never had a chance. Calvin Coolidge won in a landslide, and Davis contentedly returned to his lucrative New York law practice, his books and his briefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Jeffersonian | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Cover) Freud, Adler and Jung-these names personify, above all others, modern man's restless exploration of his own mind, his struggles for self-knowledge and for control of his darkest drives. In the 20th century, impelled by the detailed theory and dogma of the Big Three, psychology has burst out of consulting room and clinic, spreading all through life and leaving nothing untouched-neither love nor the machine, war nor politics, neither art nor morals nor God. Of the three pioneers who built this Age of Psychology, Freud and Adler are dead. The third, Carl Gustav Jung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Wise Man | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...bomb tests might afflict the earth's atmosphere for 5,000 years. The Japanese, who get radioactivity from both U.S. and Soviet tests, keep watching their rain apprehensively. Last week they reported a radioactive shower which indicated that the Russians have exploded still another "device" somewhere in darkest Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Fatal Is the Fail-Out? | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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