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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince prevents any such thing from happening at Adams House, and so draws the teeth of the play and injures its continuity. The hypocrisy with which he pretends to pretend to insult Falstaff, while actually meaning every word, is completely soft-pedaled, and the play's most multi-edged ironies go with it. Affairs are considerably heartier on that account, but there is nothing self-compensating in the insipidity and lack of eloquence in Mr. Wailes' later scenes...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Henry IV, Part I | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Unrest in Rhodesia | 3/12/1959 | See Source »

...Yard will be used more as a "test case" next Fall than as the forerunner of a complete change of College policy. Monro asserted that the College is not irrevocably committed to the single rent scale, and the multi-scale system used in the Houses may well continue in the future...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Room Rents Hiked 15%; Single Price Established | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust multi-chamber rocket engine); NASA, under Engineer T. Keith Glennan, oversees civilian projects (Project Mercury, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust single-chamber engine). But the division is arbitrary, a response to prejudices and rivalries rather than to the realities of the challenge. More serious than the inevitable duplications between ARPA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: On Pain of Extinction | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

WHILE junketing around the U.S. last week, Rus sia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) put one courtesy call at the top of his list-a special visit to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 75, Cleveland multi millionaire and Red Boss Khrushchev's favorite capitalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: CYRUS EATON | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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