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...bias in an attempt to prove that Soviet scholarship is respectable. An American professor in Russia would attempt to prove that he was not blinded by bourgeois capitalism; it would seem that Russian professors, who are even more aware of following a party line, would also do their utmost to appear objective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russian Relations | 4/24/1956 | See Source »

...American people have been handed a hard choice. First of all they are asked to determine on the basis of certain unevaluated clinical information whether they want a President for the next four years who cannot give his utmost to the office. Next they are asked to believe that this is a good thing for them and for the country. And they are told that the President's health would improve in the White House more than if he became a private citizen. The White House was not planned as a sanatorium or a nursing home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies: EISENHOWER'S DECISION | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...weight was tested techniques borrowed from the Soviet Union at a time when Stalin was at the top of his power. But the Chinese system differs in one important respect from the Russian: Stalin's NKVD and MVD worked in secret, but Mao's terror gets the utmost publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High Tide of Terror | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Naturally, if too many issues are banned from the coming electoral contest, there will not be much of a campaign. But there are peculiarly sensitive problems involved in desegregation which demand that candidates either discuss the subject with utmost moderation or else avoid discussion entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Segregating Integration | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

Above all, Gonzales was graceful and polished. The slender pre champion hit his big serve, which has been timed at 112 miles per hour, with the utmost ease and assurance. He effortlessly put away his overheads, did not miss one in the singles, and even calmly blasted one from just inside the baseline...

Author: By James W. Singer, | Title: Gonzales Indignantly Loses to Teammate | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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