Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists have already accused the U.S. of abducting one of the world's two oldest relics of human existence : Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis}, whose 250,000-year-old remains* were first unearthed near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist W. C. Pei. Dr. Pei, apparently a Red convert, claimed in 1951 that the Japanese had heisted the bones during World War II, and (worse yet) that U.S. "agents" had snatched them from Japan after...
Glamorous Aura. Four decades ago a businessman named Ichizo Kobayashi became president of the 30-mile-long electric railway from Osaka to Takarazuka (Treasure Mound). To improve his road's languishing business, he decided that he needed a major attraction at the end of the line, began to convert the terminal town into a super music hall. For a stage he covered a swimming pool with boards...
...hardly "essential." But in other cases the ban is unreasonable. Examples: ¶ When Studebaker-Packard Corp. wanted permission to erect an auto assembly plant, it argued that many of the cars would be exported, thus strengthening Japan's foreign exchange position. Though Studebaker even agreed not to convert its profits in Japan into dollars unless it also made money in both dollar and sterling areas, the offer was refused. ¶ Singer Manufacturing Co. wanted to buy 50% control of a small Japanese sewing machine firm and install new machines so the firm could compete better in world markets. Singer...
Hopkins' plan was right in line with President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace proposal (TIME, Dec. 6), but went much further. It would "seed" have-not nations with reactors. By thus enabling them to create new industries, the U.S. would convert what is now "a giveaway plan [of foreign aid] to what would be a repayment plan." Said he: "Atomic reactors . . . would . . . grow the real wealth out of which their costs could be paid back." If India and Pakistan, for example, put up counterpart funds to match the $170 million of U.S. aid allocated to them...
...treated a common enough triangle story in religious rather than sociological-or even psychological-terms. The eye of God rather than of neighborhood gossips is upon it, and the problem is not only of the conscience but of the soul. This vast and difficult theme haunts its Catholic-convert playwright without for a moment ever easing his heart. Blinkered Catholicism and clear-eyed rationalism he alike denounces; indeed, beyond a blindly clutched and tormenting faith, Greene's spiritual cupboard seems bare. His well-meaning priest remarks that he has never read Paradise Lost-whose author also, as it happens...