Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep his quest for relaxation moored to the principle that has served him well: "Strength can cooperate; weakness can only beg." That principle might have prevented the holocaust that Europe mourned last week. Today Ike's principle might not only prevent World War III but might yet find a new kind of victory...
Press and public opinion erupted. Krishna Menon, 62, is so oblivious of his own mistakes and so coldly cruel about the mistakes of others that even his well-wishers frequently find him intolerable. The fact that he had apparently precipitated strife in the high command at a time when India might be facing battle with Red China set off loud demands that he be sacked. The Hindustan Times proclaimed: "Krishna Menon must go!" The Indian Express called Menon "preeminently the guilty...
...black marketing, brought U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren hustling back to the U.S. from Turkey for hush-hush consultations with the State Department (TIME. Aug. 24). From Paris, NATO's General Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime FBI man. to find out just what was going on at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir, the station at which the four sergeants were serving. Under NATO prodding. Izmir's Public Prosecutor even launched his own investigation into the brutality charges...
Noah's Ark. To criticize the schools in good sense, says Conant, the first rule is to grasp their astonishing diversity: "You can find almost any animal in the system. It's like Noah's ark." The pervasive U.S. cathedral is the "comprehensive" high school, which sends some of its students to college and gives the rest marketable skills. But hundreds of schools are "special." New York City has outright detention camps for delinquents-and it also has the exquisitely superior Bronx High School of Science (TIME, May 5, 1958). Some urban schools teach 90% of their...
...immunity to ordinary feeling might seem a natural result. But his time, too, has come to write, and he has put pen to paper with simple eloquence in More Than Meets the Eye, a book that underscores his camera work with emotions that many a more practiced writer would find difficult to control...