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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement on the use of the atom bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Brazilians went back to their futebol games. Korea still seemed very far away. There was no reason to doubt that in any crisis Latin America would be behind the U.S. But the latinos still had to learn what the U.S. would do in Asia before they could take any action on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethargic Apprehension? | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...patient eager to relate his symptoms with exhausting attention to detail and trivia ... It is understandable why doctors become impatient with their patients . . . But becoming impatient and showing impatience are vastly different things . . . Our graces may be many, our ideals high, our errors not too many; but ... we must learn [that] much of the art of medicine resolves itself into the art of listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Say, Doc ... | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Lindsay, director of Armagh Observatory (founded 1790), has faith in the planetarium as a peacemaker. Under its domed ceiling, he said, both Northerners and Southerners can enjoy St. Patrick's stars, and through them learn to know the real stars, which are common to all Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars over Ireland | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...know how the newsdealers feel . . . However, there are authorities properly empowered to discipline traitors and silence their publications. It certainly is not for the newsdealers to set themselves up as censors." The New York Daily News agreed and added: "The Worker is one source from which Americans can learn plenty about their Communist enemies. We hope . . . that the ratty little hate-sheet will continue to be available ... to the handful of people who ever want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vendors & Censors | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Every year, as their otherwise normal children emerge from babyhood, thousands of parents ask themselves the question: "Why is my child so inattentive?" Often there are other signs: the child does not learn to talk as other children do; he eats and breathes noisily; when he cries out, his voice has an unnatural sound. As many parents soon learn, these are the symptoms of the child who cannot hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Silent World | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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