Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jazz For People Who Hate Jazz (Victor LP). A perfectly respectable collection except for its repellent title and patronizing program notes. Includes vintage performances by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Count Basic, et...
Although the New Orleans Conference was planned before last November's Rio economic conference, it is the logical sequel to the proposition advanced in Rio (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) that private enterprise can profitably do much on its own to stimulate inter-American investment...
President Eisenhower felt embarrassed and angry when the Agriculture Department rejected Wolf Ladejinsky as Tokyo attache (TIME, Jan. 3 et. seq.-). Last week with White House approval, Ladejinsky got security clearance and another job (at his previous salary: $11,800) with Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration in South Viet Nam. Ladejinsky, who planned the U.S.-sponsored land reforms in Japan that gave 3,000,000 peasant families their own farms, will blueprint similar reforms to win South Viet Nam's peasants away from Communism before next year's elections...
...brothels "in suitable places."* Whether or not Perón was sincere in billing the decree as a remedy for Argentina's worsening sex-offense problem, most Argentines looked upon the measure as a new attack in his running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante). The Peronista paper Critica went out of its way to allege that 80% of the homosexuals arrested last week "had been educated in religious schools." Feuding & Fussing. Impatient of even mild opposition, Strongman Peron has been feuding with the church since last summer, when he became worried about clerical...
...knocks . . . A failure to get through The Monastery robbed me of Scott for half a lifetime. Imagine the fate of the man first introduced to Shakespeare through Troilus and Cressida, to Trollope through He Knew He Was Right, to Hardy through Jude the Obscure or to Flaubert through Bouvard et Pecuchet . . . Tolstoy is the only author I know whose novels and major stories can be read in any order without deterrence...