Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potentialities for abuse in such a system are obvious. Security conscious officials can virtually cut off the flow of information to the public if they apply their new claims of authority arbitrarily. Over-zealous bureaucrats may be tempted to fasten the "strategic information" label on material of any kind, no matter how innocuous. And certain members of the Administration have long shown a distressing tendency to seek political advantage through selective leaks to the press; the release of the Yalta documents was only the most spectacular example. Under the new view of public information, the sphere of such political intriguing...
...Time in Berlin. The last great push to Berlin cost the Red army a million casualties. Zhukov arrived, tough and imperturbable, fully conscious of his great feat, but also plainly glad that the war was over. In Berlin, Zhukov met General Eisenhower. Wrote Ike in Crusade in Europe: "I thought Marshal Zhukov an affable and soldierly-appearing individual . . . There was discernible only an intense desire to be friendly and cooperative." Zhukov won the respect of almost all the Allied generals, but between himself and Eisenhower there was genuine affection. "That friendship was a personal and an individual thing," wrote...
...Untouchability' is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden," the Indian constitution promised in November 1949. But through much of Nehru's emergent country, the 50-million Hindu untouchables continued to live their menial lives, scorned and ignored by caste-conscious Hindus. Last week Nehru introduced, and the lower House of the People quickly passed, India's first bill to make discrimination against untouchables an offense-punishable with a six-month jail term and a fine of 500 rupees ($105). Henceforth, untouchables will have the law on their side in demanding undisturbed access to shops...
Against such seasoned opposition, Pickett has sent a team centering around 11 former Exeter players, with the balance coming from other New England schools and from the lacrosse-conscious Baltimore area...
...hide-where I could run to." The manager (Shelley Winters) of a mambo troupe (actually Katherine Dunham's) suggests that Silvana go along with them. Says Shelley: "This girl has a very important talent"-for the dance, she means, but she is mistaken. Silvana mambos like a self-conscious tourist. Her real talent is her uncanny beauty, all cool glow and rich simplicity, and a sensational figure. Then, too, it takes no little skill to read with a straight face such lines as those with which this picture concludes: "There was left to me only what I had learned...