Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the wake of President Eisenhower's trip to Western Europe and on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S., historic events were in full flood, political leaders and diplomats rode a crest of world interest and hope. TIME describes those events -and relates them the one to the others and the parts to the whole...
...profound hope that some real progress will be forthcoming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome. In this connection I know that neither America nor her allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will be placed upon any auction block." Then the President, a modest man whose strength lies in the fact that he is not enigmatic but is widely and deeply understood, set forth the face of the future as the U.S. sees it. "Fellow Americans," the President said, "we venerate more widely than...
...Raised, after months of dead-against opposition, the federal excise tax on motor fuels by 1? (Ike asked for 1½?) to finance the fund-short, 41,000-mile highway program. Result: the gas tax goes to 4? Oct 1. ¶Rejected again the Administration demand for abolition of interest-rate limits on Government bonds, thus left Treasury unable to manage the $290 billion public debt effectively in today's high, changing money market (see BUSINESS). In a minor concession, a House-Senate conference boosted the 3.26% ceiling on popular E and H savings bonds to 4.25%, thus permitting...
...intellectuals have lost touch with the magnificent heritage of Christian civilization that the founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes"), to an assumption by the nation and its citizens of moral restraint and responsibility under an immutable higher law ("sacred honor"). "We live or die as a society, we succeed or fail, with the idea of order and the idea of freedom and the idea of God intertwined," writes...
Under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement. France was allowed to main tain 5,000 troops in Laos, was entrusted with the training of the Royal Laotian Army. fact, the French promptly cut their Laotian garrison to fewer than a thousand men, showed so little interest in their training mission that many of the Laotian army's 25,000 men are still incompetent to handle anything heav ier than a submachine...