Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellow Travelers. By all odds the most interesting VIP to arrive in the U.S. last week was Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. It was difficult indeed for the free world to accept the picture of Chou giving pleasant little dinner parties for democratic diplomats in Bandung, or Khrushchev reeling with conviviality in Belgrade - but Molotov's change of pace was almost unbelievable. Twenty years of treachery and invective toward the West had made Molotov a symbol of the fanatic, devious, hate-filled Old Bolshevik. Now, like good Communists everywhere, he was suddenly trying to win friends and influence people...
...hats. In France, on the way to the U.S., Pinay reported, Molotov had also been a regular sunshine boy. During a conversation with Pinay. he had smilingly suggested that in view of German rearmament it would be wise for France to cultivate her relations with Russia. France found that difficult. Pinay replied, because of the Kremlin's strong support of French Communists and their efforts to undermine French democracy. Instantly, the Russian's amiability melted, and it was the old, cynical Molotov, in his old hat, who answered: "You have your police...
...natural place to turn for help. Founded in 1935 and developed into a treatment center by Lillian Johnson, a career social worker who is now executive director, it has scorned stuffy precedents, snatched many a "hopeless" case from the door of a state school or mental institution by entering difficult areas of child therapy. Its formula : a combination of dedicated social workers, psychoanalysts and house staffers giving treatment in an informal but disciplined family atmosphere (there are no bars or locks at Ryther). The center has become the model for 20 other residential-type child treatment centers...
None of this is likely to happen for a considerable time. Work with ACTH is slow, difficult and expensive because of the scarcity of the material. Financed by the U.S. Public Health Service, Eli Lilly Laboratories and the Lasker Foundation, Dr. Li's project took five years, cost $250,000 and consumed the pituitary glands of 360,000 sheep. Many more sheep will have to be dissected before a simplified form of ACTH becomes a standard item on the druggists' shelves...
...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...