Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Adams to a delighted audience of 1,300 Minnesota Republicans in Minneapolis' Leamington Hotel: Democrats "ought to know better than to keep on politicking with national defense. As a matter of fact, they ought to be called strictly to account by the American people for using this subject as party glue. I'll say simply this: we Republicans greet the opposition on this battlefield with as much anticipation as on any other they can conjure...
...year under the gun, the Turks are unimpressed by Russia's rocket-rattlings. In the midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21); neither Menderes nor any other Turkish politician thought the matter important enough to warrant more than passing mention in their speeches. At the Paris summit meeting this winter, most European NATO members dithered unhappily over the wisdom of accepting U.S. missile bases; Menderes spoke up to announce that Turkey was eager for any and all missiles whenever offered...
Menderes is gambling that he can create an industrialized Turkey in a matter of years without quite slipping over the brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been...
...Kirklin '59, Student Manager of the Harvard Band, said he had not been informed of any action taken by the Dartmouth group and had no idea what measures the University would take. However, he added that he is meeting with Dean Ballard on Wednesday, presumably to discuss the Dartmouth matter...
...thing about our customers--and people around the Square in general--is their taste. My husband and I thought we would really have to work to get customers interested in contemporary furniture--you think of Boston as being conservative and colonial--but the response has been wonderful. As a matter of fact, our customers are educating us now. We find out about the latest trends from them in many cases. We have to work hard to keep up with the people here, but it's a rewarding sort of work...