Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretch of Manhattan's lower East Side once ridden with slums, the clean, monotonously similar buildings of Stuyvesant Town stand as a symbol of housing progress. They are also a symbol of the North's brand of Jim Crow...
Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...
...Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern part of his diocese; Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka of the Jan Hus Faculty of Theology in Prague, the only delegate from behind the Iron Curtain, is now walking an East-West tightrope...
...15th Century, Venice still drew on a great and profitable commerce with the East. Riding the crest of the Renaissance, industrious Venetian artists were turning out more paintings than the artists of any other city in Europe...
Henderson, who knew many of the newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...