Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weight of Numbers. The words were among the most sensible any U.S. President has uttered about Latin America since Herbert Hoover proposed the Good Neighbor policy in 1928.* Until now, Inter-American Assistant Secretaries-including Mann himself in 1960-61-have been little more than a long, grey line of well-meaning but frustrated fellows. President Kennedy tried to solve the problem by sheer weight of numbers. In no particular order, and often simultaneously, he divided Latin American responsibility among the likes of old Roosevelt Brain-Truster Adolf A. Berle, Speechwriter Richard Goodwin (who coined the term Alliance for Progress...
...anywhere that the U.S. has crushing nuclear superiority over the Russians. Disagreement arises over the questions of 1) how much of a voice Europe is to have as to when and how this U.S. force is to be applied, and 2) what Western strategy should be in the intermediate grey area short of total war, an area in which NATO is perhaps more important politically than militarily. These problems swirled up again this week as the foreign and defense ministers of 15 NATO nations sat down for their big annual review conference in Paris...
...South Bend, on a cold grey day with gently descending snow, workers poured from the plant in shock and anger. In Hamilton, Ont., the news was greeted with elation, and men quickly lined up to apply for jobs. Across the U.S., 1,900 dealers sat in their showrooms and forlornly surveyed an uncertain future. In a move long expected but nonetheless shocking when it came, Studebaker Corp. announced that it was dropping auto production in the U.S.-111 years after its founding as a carriage maker and 61 since it turned out its first auto. The company insisted that...
...than it is of discerning. It is less large projects of reconstruction than it is large efforts of imagination and even larger exercises of scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
...Amen." Morning prayers had ended and about thirty bedraggled students trudged out of Appleton Chapel into the grey mist of Cambridge. They had arisen twenty minutes earlier than most undergraduates to attend the brief, daily service in the rear of Memorial Church. Part of a minority in the college, they share a distinction with approximately 15 percent of their fellows; they actively participate in religion at Harvard...