Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tents & Tasks. In late spring, with the enthusiastic approval of Morocco's new King Mohammed V, Ben Barka made a dramatic appeal to young men: give your country one month's labor on the Unity Road. Of the 36,000 youths who answered his call, 12,000 were finally selected on the basis of geographical distribution-Negroes, fair-skinned Berbers, and Arabs from the coastal cities. France (in whose detention camps ex-Revolutionary Ben Barka spent nearly four years) contributed tents for the volunteers and the U.S. provided $100,000 worth of blankets, mess kits and army uniforms...
Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Groused Pound, who is confined to St. Elizabeths' grounds on a much-argued diagnosis of legal insanity, faces trial on 19 counts of treason (he broadcast eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo...
...clay tablets found in the ruins of King Minos' palace at Knossos, Crete, and on the supposed site of King Nestor's palace near Pylos on the Greek mainland long provided archaeology with one of its most tantalizing mysteries. The tablets bore two scripts which scholars call Linear A and Linear B. But it was not until 1952-more than half a century after the Crete discovery -that Michael Ventris, British architect and cryptographer, broke Linear B, announced that its 87 "signs" closely paralleled Greek syllables (TIME, April 19, 1954). But what about Linear A? Even Ventris...
...more detailed than necessary and too diverse. Most frequent complaint: basic information about a patient's birthplace, business, earlier illnesses, etc. must be provided on most follow-up forms each time he gets new treatment. One Los Angeles physician gave a patient a simple penicillin shot, had to call him back for a second visit when the form also required a general health checkup. A Denver obstetrician simply ignores one insurance-form question: Was the pregnancy an accident...
Scripps-Howard's wisecracking, globetrotting Fred Sparks, 42, was lolling on a New Jersey beach when his office put through an urgent call: get to Hong Kong and be ready to enter Red China. Sparks normally wears a toupee over thinning hair, but he had just shaved his scalp for a cool vacation, and the toupee had nothing to cling to. So Fire-Horse Sparks rushed off without it, had a hair-curling time persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week...