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...hope that TIME readers do not get the impression that all Southerners, or even an overwhelming majority of them, are against desegregation. There are many of us who believe that integration is inevitable and for the best. However, we would not rush headlong into the problem-social customs are not changed overnight...
...field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry the bomb that would make Japan, already defeated, plunge headlong into surrender...
...trouble, said the committee, is that the U.S. rushed headlong into titanium production without first laying out a centralized, carefully detailed program. As many as eight Government agencies from the Defense Department to the National Research Council all had a hand in titanium, sometimes worked at cross purposes. By funneling $55 million into new plants for Du Pont, Titanium Metals Corp. and Cramet, Inc., the Government managed to jump production from 1,000 tons of titanium sponge (i.e., titanium pig) in 1952 to an estimated 10,000 tons this year. But manufacturers complain that titanium is pesky to fabricate, needs...
Always cocky, at week's end Yugoslav Communists proclaimed that they found Khrushchev an ersatz Stalin, headlong, a little stupid, uninformed about the out side world. After a special performance of the ballet one night, the crowd cheered Tito and greeted Russia's bigwigs in silence. The Russians had the crumpled look of men who had misjudged and knew...
...welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...