Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute with Cambodia, and another to help the fledgling republic of Guinea in 1959. Last week...
...risk of a Security Council veto or running afoul of the General Assembly's volatile political alignments. Hammarskjold himself likes to talk of the necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." But his real authority consists in having established a reputation for scrupulous moderation...
Increasingly seen as a front woman for Britain's royal family, pretty Princess Alexandra, 22, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, who went out barefooted and in slacks in Australia last summer (TIME, Sept. 14) was far more formal last week when she attended a Brazilian Chamber of Commerce banquet in London...
...photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much help. For his themes, Rocky stuck to above-it-all international problems, and his formal speeches were so high-flown, as Scripps-Howard Correspondent Albert M. Colegrove reported, that they "orbited right over the heads of his audience." (Sample: "The concept of the self-sufficient nation-state cannot be the essential instrument of the future...
Until the day when Vice President Nixon makes a formal declaration of his candidacy, Hall and his recruits must operate underground, unofficially, and off the record. But by the time the announcement is made, a nationwide organization will be primed and ready to roll into political action...