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It has long been the hope of University officials that the Houses be the intellectual centers of the community, but over the past 25 years they have certainly not measured up to these expectations. Perhaps the inclusion of graduate students from various areas of academic interest might stimulate a more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homework | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

For that reason, and because it was the one resistance symbol remaining during the period of Soviet domination, the church retains "tremendous popularity," Brzezinski continued. Churches are always overcrowded, even with the building of new ones since the end of the war. In addition, the church leadership has reached its...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Poland: Paradox of the Russian Orbit | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

And to be blunt, things are chaotic. Housing is miserable and overcrowded. Wages are so low (average: $65 a month) that many a Pole works overtime at two jobs, puts his wife and children to work, or steals what he can from the state-run enterprises, to stay alive. Gomulka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: This Is Not the Way | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

The Times had in mind the election returns trickling in from provincial assembly elections in overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Bleakest Day | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Dollars for Ancestors. In the van of the mad, meandering mob wandering the face of Europe last week were the travelers from the U.S. Fortnight ago, American Express had reported an early-season drop in Americans abroad, perhaps induced by unsettling reports of inflation and shortages and trouble overseas, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Summertime Madness | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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