Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggrieved brethren of the Slave States"; 2) abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for it. But when South Carolina rebels fired on Fort Sumter, secession became a fighting word in the North, and nothing more was heard of Tri-lnsula...
...region an ornament of empire in the '30s; now the British are trying to get control through a mandate. To the white men who rule the area, native hatred is as much a fact of life as the brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof of their personal failure. The natives live in age-old ignorance...
Probably nothing can head off an eventual sociological study of the Fort Lauderdale rite of spring. But one girl's comment should help. Asked why she made the migration, she answered with a simplicity that needs no analysis: "This is where the boys...
...called Help Wanted, made by the big (375,000 members) International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Its purpose: to blast General Electric Co., whose decentralization program (TIME, Jan. 12) has created heavy, if temporary, unemployment in cities where plants were shut down. The film shows troubles in Fort Wayne, Ind., Lynn, Mass. and Bloomfield, N.J. A Presbyterian minister argues: "The profit motive has destroyed the human personality." I.U.E. President James Barron Carey himself pleads for sympathy from G.E. and its shareholders...
Gold has been an ancestor of paradoxes from the legendary case of avaricious King Midas, who nearly starved to death because everything he touched became gleaming metal, to the phenomenon of the U.S. Government's solemnly mining gold dug from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return...