Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begin to get down now to the heart of the matter," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at his news conference last week. The U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchanges about a second parley at the summit were moving into their 13th week, and the letters, notes and messages added up to 30,250 words-22,800 Communist, 7,450 U.S.-six times the wordage of the Constitution. "And the heart of the matter is," Dulles went on, "are you going to have a meeting that is likely to accomplish something? Or is it proposed to have a meeting which would only...
...whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
...Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that he fire his luxury-loving Minister of State. When Rainier retorted, "I will accept no limitations of my powers," there, for the moment, the matter rested, and all Monaco went back to listening for the great boom of the cannon on Monte Carlo's Le Rocher-21 rounds for a girl, 101 if the House of Grimaldi gets a male heir, which would doubly insure continued freedom from French income taxes...
...make a decision on pay TV because Congress has frowned on it. FPC let gas companies put increases into effect while waiting for an FPC decision; a court recently upset the practice when the city of Memphis complained (TIME, Dec. 23). Until the Supreme Court rules on the matter-perhaps in a year or so-much expansion in the gas industry has been shelved...
...What magnetized Hanna, which had been built into a $250 million empire by former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, was not the gold heart; it was the iron breast, 2 billion tons of high-grade (60% to 70% pure) ore in the surrounding hills. But getting it was another matter...