Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part-time critic of TIME has a confession to make. As one of the central actors in the drama that has unfolded at the House Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in the press is that which I have read in the last two issues of TIME. In my opinion, this is a classic example of a "big" story which never became "news" in the daily press, but which finally saw print in your journal...
...evidence is overwhelming," said Director Allen Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, "that the Soviets intend to use nuclear blackmail as a major weapon to promote their objectives-namely, to spread Communism through out the world." Dulles' rare public statement was read to reporters as he emerged from a closed-door session with 45 U.S. Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout...
...first man to see potential wealth in the Sahara was a brilliant but unstable French geologist named Conrad Kilian. In 1927, after three harrowing years in the central Sahara-on one expedition he was obliged to remove his own tonsils without anesthetic-Kilian returned to Paris proclaiming that the Sahara was a huge depository of oil and natural gas. Geologists scoffed. "There is no more oil in the Sahara than there are trees in the Atlantic," cracked one. In 1950, worn out by repeated bouts of mental illness and years of rebuffs from French authorities, Kilian hanged himself...
...other. The Governor's "solution," which the Arkansas Gazette called a "bad political joke," would have sent hundreds of Negro students to Hall, the high school located in the well-to-do Pulaski Heights area that has consistently voted against Faubus. But it would also have left Central a segregated school. Because this would clearly have violated the federal court order to deny no citizen entrance to a public school because of color, Faubus could hardly have expected the school board to take up his suggestion. But its rejection by the school board, as Faubus might also have foreseen...
...John Ferren explains his seemingly heretical deviation into symmetry: "My symmetrical paintings were an emotional experience and an individual conclusion. To me personally, the central form was 2-necessary. I, myself, see through...