Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME cover by one of the West's most distinguished artists, New Mexico's Peter Hurd. A LIFE correspondent during World War II, Hurd has painted on all five continents, but the people and scenes he likes best to portray are the ranch folk, the sun-blazed desert and the bare mountains near his New Mexican ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery...
...Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic. Perhaps the desert pipeline to the Mediterranean might be expanded. And new supertankers might make the long and costlier way around the Cape of Good Hope more practical (see BUSINESS...
Philip Rahv, editor of the Partisan Review and keynote speaker, termed the Little Magazine "an oasis of gratuity in a desert of utility" and pointed out that since 1912 these magazines have discovered 80 percent of all new novelists, poets, and critics...
Lost in the Desert Sands. Nehru's increasing influence in Southeast Asia has been matched by a growing disenchantment with him in the U.S. In the beginning, the U.S. greeted Indian independence in 1947 with pleasure. Thoreau and Jefferson, cried the cheerleaders, had inspired India's rebels. Nehru, said Pundit Walter Lippmann, is "certainly the greatest figure in Asia...
...clear mountain flood of [Gandhi's] spiritual influence . . . lost itself in the desert sands of Nehru's day?" demanded Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders. Today U.S. views range from Justice Douglas' conviction that Nehru is "the most effective opponent of Communism in Asia" to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's belief that Nehru is an aide and ally of Communist imperialism-"in fact and in effect, if not in diplomatic verbiage...