Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about the complexities of federal fiscal policy than any other man in the House. Sam Rayburn leaned on Mills's advice in fiscal matters, seemed to be grooming him for the Speakership...
...book, World Peace Through Law: "I hope to continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The legal profession in every country in the world must be ultimately summoned to a great conference of lawyers if we are to succeed. The stake is so great the goal is worth the effort...
...figures were a vindication for that small corps of Sino experts gathered in Hong Kong who, in the face of Chinese claims, had surmised a great failure and had reported food shortages in the cities while Peking was talking of vast stockpiles (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). And, as many Western observers had already suspected, the highly touted backyard steel furnaces proved a fiasco. None of 3,000,000 tons produced was usable in industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants...
...with the admission of failure came a compulsive Communist need to label it a success. Red newspapers carried banner headlines crying, LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD- and LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S COMMUNES! In city after Chinese city last week, party workers were ordered into the street to beat drums and lead parades "celebrating" what were really ghastly failures. Most ominous of all were the blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune...
...remote and mysterious plain, the crenelated walls with their eleven great gates and 181 watchtowers gleamed in the night. "Seen thus," wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to Adventure-an account of his journeys in 1938 to forbidden parts of the U.S.S.R. -"Bukhara seemed an enchanted city, with its pinnacles and domes and crumbling ramparts white and dazzling in the pale light of the moon...