Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popped Wisconsin's talky Senator William Proxmire, who has made a happy headline career out of baiting Leader Johnson (TIME, April 20) by demanding Democratic policy meetings. Said Proxmire: "I challenge Senators to tell us what our policy is on the budget, what our policy is on interest rates, what our policy is on taxation, or what our policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed at his critics. Asked...
...adviser, Scientists' Scientist Kistiakowsky can be expected to take up where James Killian left off. He should be helped by a high sense of mission. Says one of George Kistiakowsky's closest friends: "His first interest is in science, and to give up [lab work] for a while is very hard for him. He does think scientists have a very heavy responsibility to the nation, and I think that's been the overriding fact with...
...ordinary time and clime, the election would have been of less than routine interest to most Americans; six unknown men were running to retain their places on the school board of a fair-sized U.S. city. But this was Little Rock, 20 months after segregationist rioting blazed into world headlines and 8½-months after the high schools closed rather than permit Negro children to sit with whites. This election was, in fact, a crucial test of whether Little Rock was ready to begin its return to sanity. Little Rock...
...Four public meetings at Geneva were certainly getting nowhere. Neither did the first of their private talks, 15,000 feet over the Atlantic. But already everyone was looking for an agreeable way to break off the Geneva talks in a week or two, and the chief interest now centered on a search for an interim agreement committing all Big Four powers to maintain something like the status quo in Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling...
Would such a bargain justify a summit meeting? The British, most eager of all the Westerners to promote summit talks, had a further suggestion-let the final Geneva communique also report "mutual interest" in such problems as disarmament and nonaggression pacts-a ceremonious way of simply reaffirming that problems exist, even if solutions...