Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, if distributed at home and abroad, could be an effective weapon for us. The publisher's price [$5] will prevent many from buying it. The solution is a subsidized paperback 50? edition with worldwide, free foreign-language copies. Since the U.S.S.R. holds and refuses payment of royalties owed American authors whose works have been published in Russia, the Pasternak royalties could be distributed among these unpaid American authors and credited to the balances owed them by the Russians...
...find out where Red China does stand today, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Year of the Leap...
...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
...plain little second-floor office set up for him above the golf pro's shop at the Augusta National course. Into the office flowed messages updating the President on the twists and turns of a new crisis: the Russian push to end four-power occupation of Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS). Whatever the Russian maneuvers meant, there was only one course for the U.S.: to stand steady. Announced President Eisenhower through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Our firm intentions in West Berlin remain unchanged...