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...didn't know that." She also discovered that Georgia's old guard was more flex ible than she had thought. "At first they were skeptical about the young dele gates. They thought we were in it for a lark. Now they take us more seriously. There's been a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How the Young Saw It | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...90th Congress is concerned, time's a-wastin'. With elections only a month off, its members are desperate to get their campaigns under way. Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week. One of them explained simply: "We've got to get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: No Blood from a Turnip | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Away from Orthodoxy. Those hard lessons weighed heavily on the dele gates from 45 nations who created day's monetary system during three summer weeks of 1944 in the forest-cupped resort town of Bretton Woods, N.H. Out of their deliberations came the Washington-based International Monetary Fund and its sister agency, the World Bank (now headed by Rob ert Strange McNamara), which makes loans to underdeveloped countries. Bretton Woods' key decision was to stick with gold as the primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: It Could Be Dawn | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Antoine Pinay has shaved off the little mustache and discarded the round hat with upturned brim that were once his trademarks as Premier of the Fourth Republic. But his popularity with Frenchmen remains second only to that of De Gaulle himself. Last week a dele gation representing three center parties of France presented itself in Pinay's handsome apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne in Paris to put a question. Would Pinay stand for President in the French elections next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Divided They Stand | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). George Mason, the Virginia dele gate to the 1787 Philadelphia convention who refused to endorse the Constitution because it failed to include a bill of rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Apr. 30, 1965 | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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