Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincerely congratulate you on the Aug. 11 article on the U.N.'s Henry Cabot Lodge. During the last five years, I have witnessed the excellent work performed by Ambassador Lodge in defending the highest principles of international morals. His uprightness in opposing the sinister maneuvers of the representatives of the Soviet Union and its satellites and quasi-satellites deserves high praise from the free men of the world...
After looking at your Aug. 4 pictures of the Baghdad victims, I have decided to resign from the human race...
...many, though silent, Americans who appreciated TV's on-the-spot coverage of the U.N.'s handling of the Middle East crisis [Aug. 4]. Ordinarily, I wouldn't waste my time on the trash that litters the daytime TV screen, but I stayed glued to my set to watch U.N. representatives at work on a grave international problem. If the members of that "peace-loving audience" of popular programs truly cared to preserve the pleasant status quo of their lives, they would do well to pay less attention to the meaningless escapism of Dotto, Play Your Hunch...
...exhibitions of U.S. abstract expressionist paintings on view at the Brussels World's Fair (TIME, June 16) and making the rounds of major European cities as "The New American Painting" show (TIME, Aug. 4), have aroused some ahs, some boos and a great deal of hullabaloo. Tourists, critics, even State Department officials have suggested that these works give a one-sided-and distorted-glance at the U.S. world of art. This week a new European show of American paintings is stressing another side-realism...
Plenty of Omens. The two-years-for-good-measure reflected the mood of the South last week: the triumphant primary victory of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Aug. 11) boosted segregationist hopes that the Federal Government can successfully be defied. Integration leaders and law-abiding moderates look gloomily toward the beginning of the fifth school year after the Supreme Court decision. The Deep South will generally continue to bar all Negroes; the border states give little promise of progress, plenty of omens of trouble...