Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idea!" So eager was General Eisenhower for battle that he forswore his customary distaste for a news conference, and stayed in town to hold one last week. When the reorganization questions popped, he poured it on. First off, he knocked down the recurrent complaints that the new plan (TIME, April 14) would make a czar out of the Defense Secretary. "Let's look at the built-in constitutional guards that there are," said he. "A commander in chief over the Secretary of Defense [who in turn] is certainly not going to be very effective if four chiefs of staff...
...idea of making a czar out of anybody! Usually, they have always tried to do it about a military man. Now they found that wasn't very profitable because . . . they couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar...
President Eisenhower popped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev one day last week to propound a new practical approach to getting something done about disarmament. The new idea: a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. technical study on how to conduct an inspection of any suspension of nuclear tests or suspension of nuclear war production in case some agreement might be reached at a parley at the summit...
...slow start about three years behind the Holy See. When Belgium's few Protestants (approximately 90,000) asked the World Council of Churches about a pavilion, they were told they could use the World Council's name, but not its money. Gradually, support for the idea gained ground. The first contribution from overseas was $560 from New Zealand Protestants; among others, the Belgians set themselves a quota of $20,000; a Netherlands committee is halfway to its goal of $26,000; and in the U.S. the United Church Women are raising $100,000. Total collected...
Swing into Spring: "Benny," said Host Dave Garroway to King of Swing Goodman, "have you any idea how many couples met, danced, fell in love and got married, all because of you?" Fumbling for a figure, Benny Goodman at length replied: "1,327,463." After that improbable exchange, NBC valiantly set out to prove that swing not only scintillates on TV but is newer, "bigger and better" than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side...