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Says Bestor: "It is a curiously ostrich-like way of meeting life needs to de-emphasize foreign languages during a period of world war and postwar global tension, and to de-emphasize mathematics at precisely the time when the nation's security has come to depend on Einstein's equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nothing Less Than Failure | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...fourth, visiting professor and psychiatrist John Spiegel, explained that the success of a marriage between Jew and Gentile would depend strongly upon the intensity of religious feeling in each of the partners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religious Leaders Discuss Problems Of Inter-Faith Marriage at Forum | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

Invaders & Guests. Ants have scent-glands on their backs, and in the course of their constant caressing, all the individuals in a colony acquire the same odor. Since ants depend chiefly on smell, rather than on sight or hearing, the colony odor is equivalent to the recognition signs that humans use to identify members of their social groups. If an ant that does not smell just right is introduced into a colony, it is usually treated roughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Civilized Ants | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson still has a chance to dump the depositors. Pro-season speculation had the varsity among the Heptagonal favorites, but illness and injuries have hurt the runners' showing all season. Much will depend on the individual performance of Captain Hal Gerry, Hubie Maguire, and Emil San Soucie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Underdog Crimson Runners Take Part in Heptagonals | 11/6/1953 | See Source »

Molloy probably won't be back for the rest of the year, according to both the doctors and Jordan Olivar. And what old Blues feared after he was injured has happened--his sucessor, Jim Lopez, just hasn't shown the passing accuracy that Yale must depend on. Lopez has helped the Elis defensively, but probably right now Olivar would trade all of last year's defensive platoon for a small, slow, little man like Carroll Lowenstein, with a sturdy accurate arm like Lowenstein...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

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