Word: may
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...here, as President Eisenhower and others have emphasized, that the West can best help. By supplying others with capital, the West may be able to help them achieve more speedily what it took Japan 90 years to accomplish-the transition from a purely agricultural nation to an industrial-and-agricultural nation whose citizens can now clearly foresee the day when they will all enjoy an adequate diet...
...office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." But his real authority consists in having established a reputation for scrupulous moderation and impartiality in enlarging the role of his office...
...driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, spinning generators of a power station. The rest of the massive apparatus-furnaces, boilers, turbines, condensers, etc. -is only to make the generators spin. Last week Avco Corp. described an infant invention that may grow into a wholly different and more efficient way to generate electricity...
...year-old Vienna Philharmonic is a patrician among symphony orchestras. Others may be suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold...
MONSIGNOR WILLIAM THEODORE HEARD, 75, a convert from the Church of Scotland (as a 26-year-old lawyer) to Catholicism, who will be the first Scottish cardinal since the death of Charles Cardinal Erskine in 1811. "He may also," speculated the London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing...