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...English-speaking islanders who live there now are 80% Baptist, 15% Seventh-Day Adventist, 5% Roman Catholic. Their pride and joy are their schools; literacy is 100%, compared to the Colombian mainland average of 56%. From the islands last week came jolting news that a Spanish priest, named as Inspector of Education for the islands by the Colombian government, had shut down the Protestant schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: No School Today | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...balmy day last week in blossom-perfumed, crescent-beached Rio, Inspector Carlos Santos of the police department's costume and amusement section called in the press. Ordered from on high to crack down on public lovemaking, the inspector outlined the new rules for kissing in the carnival capital of the world: "The pure kiss, what we call the official kiss, on the cheek or hand, will be permitted. But so-called 'American' kissing, which awakens other intentions and is shocking in public, will be suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Kissing Rules | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

ROBERT F. UNDERWOOD Inspector, L.A.P.D. (Ret.) San Diego, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

R.H.I.P. In Toledo, suspended for leaving the scene of an accident. Police Inspector Charles W. Roth explained that he had driven off because he would have felt "like a jackass" waiting for an ordinary patrolman to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Russia's liaison man got away, but last week all twelve Norwegians in the spy ring were in jail awaiting trial. Heading them all, said Inspector Brhyn, was his old comrade in the underground, Asbjoern Sunde. Old Comrade Sunde, hard as nails, said only: "I'm not talking at all. You have to prove everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Old Acquaintance | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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