Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade Expansion Act, now being worked over by the House Ways and Means Committee, pushes far beyond the old reciprocal trade program. It would empower the President to slash U.S. tariffs by 50% or more-all the way down to zero on important categories of manufactured goods (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). But against this grave challenge, the protectionists have put up a flabby fight. The vigor and zeal of yesteryear are gone...
...text was familiar: that notable Irish Baritone John F. Kennedy had delivered it in its entirety in Washington on Jan. 20, 1961. Set to music by Composer Russell Danburg, 55, and given its premiere at the University of Florida last week, the Kennedy inaugural address took 55 minutes to perform (Jack Kennedy himself took 14), called for a 70-piece orchestra and more than 300 choristers. Critics agreed that though Kennedy had been eminently satisfactory in his solo effort, the choral reprise made rewarding song...
...side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and finally AEC Commissioner Gordon Dean. On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman ordered the H-bomb to be built...
...Irian to the Indonesians), which Sukarno keeps threatening to "liberate" from Dutch rule. Actually, while Sukarno kept ranting, he managed quietly to postpone his deadline. Before, he had sounded as if an invasion of New Guinea were imminent, but now he shouted: "Whatever happens, before the sun rises on Jan. 1, 1963, West Irian will be ours. If the Dutch oppose peaceful means, we shall liberate with force." Before Jan. 1, 1963, Sukarno wall have plenty to preoccupy him at home...
...born a revolutionary tell you that you cannot permanently sacrifice the principles of YOUR revolution." So wrote Benito Mussolini to his brother rebel Adolf Hitler in a letter dated Jan. 3, 1940, reproaching Hitler for his cordial relations with yet another revolutionary-Stalin. But Mussolini, the founder of Fascism, proved in his own life the spiritual twinship of Fascism and Stalin's Bolshevism. He had marched under both banners without changing step...