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Last week William Buckley Sr. was making plans for his 28 grandchildren. In a circular sent out to Sharon, Lakeville and Salisbury parents who he thought might be interested in going along with him, he announced that next fall he would open a school to train pupils "to resist the blight of Liberalism and Communism they will encounter in almost all elementary schools." The new Buckley school -for students from four to 14-should be one of the more radical educational experiments of the coming year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buckley & the Blight | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Movements: Place hands under lowered chin and push up hard. At the same time resist with neck muscles to give the effect of lifting a heavy object. The text to go with it: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips" (Psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayer & Fasting | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Bulwark ... In Oxford, England, after lengthy debate, the Union Society of Oxford University voted 280-203 in favor of the motion: "This House will resist a spread of the American way of life to this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...committee declared: "Let there be no doubt. Although the joint committee was sharply divided as to the proper constitutional processes, it was not divided at all as to the substantive policy announced by the President of using armed force, if necessary, to help nations in the Middle East resist overt Communist aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word for the Middle East | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Having just seen Baby Doll, I couldn't resist dropping over to view Carroll Baker, this year's Pudding Plum. Of course they threw me out when I tried to crash, but someone told me Carroll was actually over in the Yard being given the old tour treatment. Sure enough, a black bomb half as long as University Hall was cruising lethally along frosh row, and when I ran up and peeked in a pair of soft blue eyes met mine...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Baby Doll | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

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