Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school in Warren County (TIME, Sept. 22). business slowed to a standstill. The P.T.A. canceled its fun festival. Students lazed around The Corner Shoppe across the street from the maple-shaded courthouse, drinking Cokes, leafing through girlie magazines, playing the pinball machine. Both management and labor at the nearby American Viscose Corp. plant spoke up hotly against the school shutdown. Key reason for the bitterness: the Negro population in Front Royal is so small (8% of the total population) that the town could work out its problems as well as any average Northern community. Editor Edward T. Bromfield...
Academic Life. Graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1927, he taught math and physics there for two years. Inspired by a gift of Professor Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, he worked for three years to raise enough money to get to Harvard and study under Whitehead himself. After getting his Ph.D., he taught philosophy at Beirut from 1937 to 1945. Said the great Whitehead: "One of those extraordinary individuals who had a kind of air of divinity about...
...people of the Middle East as a basis of their foreign relations. In one U.N. speech, he criticized the Communists for "the spiritual enslavement" of man but at the same time condemned the West for being "repulsively materialistic." If the "wonderful springs of the mind and the spirit in American existence" can "be tapped and mediated to the rest of the world," says Malik, a "spiritualized materialism" might grow up to embody Western life and faith and provide the saving answer to Communism...
...away from the Marine base, Matador missiles-capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto mainland China-stood on 24-hour alert, their crews constantly rehearsing countdowns. Elsewhere on the same field, a Chinese air force major, fresh from a kill of a Communist MIG, talked over combat tactics with an American captain who was about to take him up in one of the F-100 Super Sabres which the U.S. is providing to replace the slower Thunderjets and Sabres now flown by the Nationalists...
...Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows) of the carny, they plunked their dimes down for Jennie Thurman, "The Girl...