Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time!"). But both the gifted actor who played Marty and the great poet-playwright who created The Waste Land are part of show business, and both made news last week. So did their wives. In the case of the newly divorced Ernest Borgnines, it was a matter of an old Hollywood story; in the case of the almost newlywed T. S. Eliots, it was a matter of brand-new play. For both stories, see SHOW BUSINESS, Marty in Hollywood and Love & Mr. Eliot...
...machinery to get evidence on public problems. But in this lonely job it is good for him to have someone who is a good listener and a sympathetic friend who can serve as a sounding board." By mutual consent, his role as friend and sounding board is not a matter for tabloid parade. "We have an understanding," President Eisenhower has told friends, "that we will keep each other's confidences...
...presidential speech, Ike took one look and said, gently but firmly: "That's fine. But it's not what I want to say." Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955. As a matter of constitutional principle, he advised Ike to veto the bill and "tell Congress to go to hell." But Ike, unlike Milton, has the responsibility of elective office, and he realized that the virtues of the whole bill outweighed the single objection. He signed the bill as it stood, told Milton with...
...central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive in a Moscow prison, mentally sick in a sanitarium. "There is no mystery," said Newsman Alexander Kislov at the U.N., at last getting down to Tass facts, "Vasily Stalin went to pieces after his father's death. It was a matter of drinking too much, poor fellow. He had to be sent to an institution. I heard he was still being treated the last time I was in Moscow...
...with two methods of studying wave motion, one with a Land camera and stroboscopic light, the other with magnetic tape). By fall of 1959, when the M.I.T. committee and the National Science Foundation hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high school students. But the chain-reaction's shock wave will continue spreading. Chief shock absorbers: the nation's colleges, many of which teach a brand of physics as outmoded as the one now being replaced in the high schools...