Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become brutally visible. Cabled TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre last week: "It is only when the nations really start to talk about abolishing economic frontiers that the Belgian brewers think about all the beer that the Dutch can make. Or the watchmakers of Grenoble begin to agonize at the thought of competing with the Swiss. Or the owners and workers of Italy's Fiat auto plants point trembling fingers at the Renault and Citroën production in France. Or the French masons and building unions become indignant at the prospect of cheaper Italian labor...
...Clocks. Wittenberg, who is 29, expects to go on wrestling for a long time. Says he: "In wrestling, you don't compete against a clock or against a tape measure. And as you begin to slow down, you get smarter." Turn pro? Not Henry Wittenberg. Says he coldly: "I question the authenticity of professional wrestling...
...laboratories. As construction got under way, Miamisburgers shivered with talk of bombs, death-dealing radiation, radioactive waste, etc. So the company's scientists staged a three-day atomic-energy show, explained patiently that Monsanto was not working on bombs but on peacetime uses. Their forecast: atomic energy would begin to revolutionize electrical power production within five to ten years...
Despite the tactical blunders of the author, though, the book merits reading. The story of the hearings is frightening in its connotations and its consequences are begin felt adversely in every movie coming out of Hollywood today. It is obvious from its own records that the committee went into the hearings with the verdict already a certainty. Thomas let the "friendly" witnesses have free rein, permitting them to make all kinds of accusations and vilifications under the cloak of immunity. No one that fell under these torrents of abuse was allowed to defend himself in any way or to cross...
...will begin to write about the Eastern areas of Europe. . If you write you know nearly nothing about the area behind the "iron curtain," I must suppose that this you know is wrong, because the Russians show to American and foreign reporters only a very little bit and those you know as "Potemkin village," the truth no one will know. You may ask, what is the only truth? This is not easy to say, but I will...