Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 3 issue lead story has these words: ". . . what longtime White House reporters deemed the most baffling of all Dwight Eisenhower's presidential weeks." Out of curiosity, we hunted today for any White House reporters (aside from TIME'S man) who had been polled by TIME on what they thought of the President's week. We are sure you are not surprised that we found not a one. We question your right to attribute your own conclusions to "longtime White House reporters" who might not agree with...
...fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
...recession. For the third time in four months, FRB cut the discount rate. Reserve banks in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta reduced the rate from 2¾% to 2¼%. Most of the other eight central reserve banks will soon follow; the cuts are expected to lead to lower interest rates to boost loans and business expansion...
SOVIET GOLD DIGGERS may lead world production this year. In 1957 Soviets turned out about 38% of world gold supply-17 million 02. worth $595 million-to match the longtime leader, South Africa. Gold hoard gives Soviets potent economic weapon to fight balance-of-trade deficits...
...lead-off story, The Adulterous Woman, might have been titled Death of a Salesman's Wife. Janine is a plumpish, childless French housewife in North Africa; for 25 years her marriage has been nourished on the bread-crumb rations of the need to be needed. Accompanying her salesman husband on a tour of his selling territory, Janine is struck by the stoic dignity of the Arabs, and by the cruel yet sensuous landscape. One night she steals out to the desert's edge to be laved by "the water of night ... in wave after wave, rising up even...