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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked Congress to approve an "agreement for cooperation" between the U.S. and the Euratom nations (France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg) that offers U.S. financial aid, designs for five to seven nuclear reactors, engineers and scientists and a 20-year supply of reasonably priced U 235 for a new $350 million European power grid that will generate a million kilowatts of power. Since Europe needs cheap nuclear power more than the hydroelectric rich U.S., Ike believes the U.S. can use Euratom experience to study problems of nuclear-power development, will benefit even more because Euratom will inevitably pull European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Open-Ear Policy | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...reserved for officials whose knowledge may be needed by a Cabinet minister. Aneurin Bevan, so long the terror of the Tories, summed up Labor's position: "We do not commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: In the Box | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Spare. An outspoken advocate of New Dealish reforms in Italy, Fanfani promptly looked left. Aided by Italy's Christian Democratic President Giovanni Gronchi, Fanfani won agreement from Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats to join him in a left-of-center anti-Communist coalition. The Christian Democrats' 272 votes and the Social Democrats' 22 votes still fell four short of a majority in the Chamber. With the votes of one French-speaking and three German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Party's Choice | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...such easy "meat for the charlatan," the council insisted that its use should be limited to specially trained doctors and dentists, who must be careful to use it only in the area of their specialty. On the hazards of hypnosis, the council had conflicting evidence and could reach no agreement. But on one point it was dogmatic: "The use of hypnosis for entertainment purposes is vigorously condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hypnotized Heart | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rappers & Knockers | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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