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...reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that "the obvious explanation" is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture. This all may be true enough, but the Secretary's hasty appraisal is not the way to counter the Soviet gambit. Countries keeping an appraising eye on the two world foes see perpetual Russian smiles and perpetual American frowns. They are presented by the Kremlin with a fait accompli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Power of Positive Thinking | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

...faculty members will confer with the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Department of Fine Arts, in New York, on Monday, concerning problems of administration and expansion within the Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers to Meet With Fine Arts Men | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

Climbing into the pilot's seat, the King took off toward the dark clouds hanging low over the naked hills of the Holy Land to the west, minutes later swooped down to a neat landing in Jerusalem. There he dashed off to confer for two hours with young (34), mustachioed Lieut. Colonel Abu Nawar, his favorite military adviser of the moment, then stopped off briefly at a Legion camp to tell clustering legionnaires: "Work together, observe discipline, and we shall have happiness, Allah willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Boy King | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Made from an organism found in voles (British field mice). This bacillus (Mycobacterium muris) is a close kin to the human-type tubercle bacillus, but does not cause disease in man. The question before this test was whether it could confer immunity against TB (as cowpox does against smallpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccination for TB | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Together. Also flying toward Karachi at week's end were France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Between sessions with SEATO's other five foreign ministers, the Big Three plan to confer on the Middle East. There the troubles were not, by any means, all of Russia's making, though the Russians are ready to profit from the divisions and hatreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Old Order Crumbles | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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