Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Favoring a strong civil rights act, the candidate says that "the White House has failed to provide the strong moral leadership necessary in our integration crisis." Asked about the North-South split in his party, Saltonstall remarked that "if the Southerners won't play along, let them leave the Democratic party...
Convoyed from his native coastal village by a task force of rifle-slung motorcyclists and troop-filled jeeps, Major General Fuad Chehab rode to his inauguration as Lebanon's new president through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
Kilb's troubles began last spring with a police investigation of reports that he had been accepting regular gift packages of coffee and other goodies from the company that operates West Germany's railway sleeping cars. Soon after the investigation started, the West German civil service decided that Kilb had been in Adenauer's office long enough, got him named director of security for the European Atomic Energy Community in Brussels. But the unforgiving police doggedly continued their investigation, discovered that more than a year ago Kilb acquired a Mercedes 190 SL sports car and, after...
Died. Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington...
Chiang's declarations that he will continue the civil war, and win it, are "fantasy," and protestations that the loss of Quemoy will lead to the loss of Taiwan are "a bluff," Reischauer said. He advocated a "deal" whereby Communist cession of Taiwan would be exchanged for U.S. recognition of the Red regime...