Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking a portrait of a great statesman, a national or international prime mover. What we are seeking is a close, fast-moving picture of a man essentially doing what he is supposed to do, under the Constitution, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer...
...trouble with Communism, as many a disgruntled Polish diner-out can testify, may be studied at close range in any state-run restaurant. When signaled, a Polish waiter turns his back. When plucked by the sleeve as he saunters by, the waiter snaps, "Kolega," meaning it is not his table. Menus sometimes are elaborate and evocative, but when asked to serve some dish other than fried pork and overboiled cabbage, the waiter answers: "Niema" (There...
Following close debate, the name of General Winfield Scott, hero of the Mexican War and top-ranked Union officer in the 1860s, was returned to the membership rolls of the University of South Carolina's Clariosophic Society. The college debaters purged Scott when he stuck by the Union at the outset of the Civil War. A century later, some Clariosophomores still think Virginia's Scott was "a man with the blood of our predecessors dripping from his hands"; but the ayes had seen his glory coming...
...near-blind. Feinbloom has concentrated for decades on the problem of 500,000 Americans who are legally blind (less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance for outdoors), and the patient had to keep switching three pairs of glasses. Each pair was expensive, so the benefits of Feinbloom's ingenuity could not reach the needy blind...
However, King asserted, the University is not deliberately raising admissions standards. "He said, "The problem is that close to 90 per cent of those applying for admission could be predicted to get a C, or over, at Harvard...