Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cloaked in the cardinal-and-white hood and sable robes of a Cornell Ph.D. for his installation as chancellor of the University of Chicago, Nobel prizewinning Geneticist Dr. George W. Beadle (TIME cover, Jan. 2) proposed a sure way for keeping outside support of education from turning into outside control. Set up an "independence fund," suggested Beadle, so schools can "say no to any proposal for Government-or private-support that threatens our independence...
...histories read like Horatio Alger stories--the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Hence there is a tendency among lesser nations toward emulation of the two Cold War antagonists. This tendency should not be confused with the passing infatuation which the ex-colonial states have been showing for the trappings of nation-hood. The familiar insistence of every infant state that it be provided with an army, an airline, a steel mill, and a vote in the UN indicates emulation of established states in general rather than the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in particular. Emulation of the Cold War Powers is less demonstrable...
Make Mine Mink. British Comedian Terry-Thomas' usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy wonderfully enliven a piece about a retired major turned modern Robin Hood...
Make Mine Mink. British Comedian Terry-Thomas' usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy enliven a piece about a retired major turned modern Robin Hood...
...whisked about Paris in a snow-white Chevrolet Bel Air and spent her evenings backstage at the Folies Pigalle, Martini stayed snugly at home in the suburban chateau, where every visitor was screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying on the Place Pigalle with three bullets in his chest...