Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again it will be clearly shown that principlcs of power politics count for more than justice, and that Western European civilization has forever forsaken the Christian gospel upon which it was founded...
When Dr. Hamilton started out, the A.M.A. had never held a meeting on industrial medicine, and technical papers on it by U.S. doctors were rare (though European work on it filled volumes). There were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this...
Rations & Noses. All told, Western Europe has only enough oil on hand for five weeks. To conserve it, Great Britain has already started rationing oil by cutting consumer supplies 10% at the distributor level; France began rationing gasoline by restricting all pleasure travel and tourism. Other European nations are also feeling the pinch...
...chief historian for the European Theater of Operations under Eisenhower, Marshall led scores of other Army historians in seeking the soldiers' story, often under fire. Early in the Korean war 'he took leave of the Detroit News, to analyze the new enemy's unfamiliar techniques. Out of this experience came Marshall's best book, The River and the Gauntlet (TIME, June i, 1953), an epic description of the Eighth Army's 1950 defeat by the inrushing Chinese Communist masses...
...Israel's invasion of Egypt caught some editors flat-footed-and several Middle East cor respondents off their Cairo base on swings through Jordan and Lebanon. Those in Amman and Beirut were sealed off from action by censorship or travel restrictions. Editors urgently ordered new shifts in their European bureaus to get extra men to Cairo, as well as to Tel Aviv and the British-French base on Cyprus. A dozen correspondents rushing to the Middle East were stranded in Athens when...