Word: adlai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reproductive cycle. He said that he was going next day to the Beltsville, Md., agricultural station to see some experiments along the same line, added: "If you want to see how a cockroach acts when there's some sex attractant around, come on along." To which U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who was last on the list to recite, replied: "I always wanted to know about that...
...crisis may not be quite "a watershed in human affairs," as Adlai Stevenson calls it, but the whole U.N. experiment has come close to collapse. There are uncomfortable parallels with the disintegration of the League in the 1930s: failure to stop aggression (then it was the Italian attack on Abyssinia), withdrawal by members (then Japan and Nazi Germany). Is the U.N. also falling apart? Should the U.S., the U.N.'s most ardent and generous backer, continue to support it? And just what is there left to support...
...that world, the U.N. can be, as Adlai Stevenson said of the Assembly, an "effective second line of defense for peace." But until the world changes very drastically, in any major crisis it is still America and its allies that will have to constitute the first line of defense...
...This is his sixth cover for TIME. The others: André Malraux, Sigmund Freud, Alec Guinness, Adlai Stevenson and Lenin...
Silenced Pessimists. Winston Churchill's countrymen quickly turned back to present realities and future problems. Yet everywhere people paused to wonder what Churchill might teach the world he left behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources...