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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education. Conant fed it instead and raised it to be one of the nation's best. What...
...President held two solid talks with De Gaulle, one for 70 minutes alone with interpreters, one for almost an hour with Secretary of State Christian Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. On France's labyrinthine problem in Algeria, a problem that De Gaulle kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally to keep in closer touch with more...
This week, deeply gratified by the progress of his mission and refreshed by the interlude in Scotland, the President headed back to Washington, with only a scant week remaining before the arrival of Nikita Khrushchev...
...week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita Khrushchev's visit. A major general and a colonel of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, the Kremlin's secret police, gumshoed quietly across the country, turning up in such unlikely places as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). First of Author-Adventurer John Gunther's new series. Song of the Congo takes the world traveler back inside Africa, where a native dance company is recruited from 200 varied and often feuding tribes...