Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart & Mind. Dwight Eisenhower's inner circle includes such top aides as recently embattled Assistant to the President Sherman Adams, whose "OK, SA" must still go on every staff paper submitted for presidential decision (TIME, Jan. 9, 1956), and Press Secretary James Hagerty, whose job it is to ken the presidential mind (TIME, Jan. 27). On less official but equally close terms are the American Red Cross's president, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, speaking as an old comrade in arms, and ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, for whose economic. views the President has enormous respect...
...months as a goblin killer, Thach has perfected techniques aimed at the mind of the submarine skipper, imprisoned in the ocean's depths. One of Thach's favorite tactics is nicknamed The Other Shoe, and it is designed to take advantage of the submariner's insatiable curiosity about what is happening on the surface. Instead of the expected salvo of two depth charges, Thach heaves only one from a destroyer. The submarine skipper waits anxiously for the second charge-just as a man in bed, hearing his upstairs neighbor drop one shoe, frets sleepily as he listens...
...House, which approved a $10 billion permanent increase in the $275 billion permanent national debt limit, plus an additional temporary increase of $3 billion, changed its mind. It went along with a Senate bill pressed by Virginia's penny-counting Harry Byrd, setting the permanent increase at $8 billion and the temporary increase at $5 billion more until next June...
...when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick it out here. We have to set up a post here if we want the surviving women and children...
Busmen are not the only ones who take busmen's holidays, according to Alsatian-born Author-Artist Tomi Ungerer. "Whatever your profession," he writes in Scope Weekly (a digest of medical news published for Upjohn Co.), "after some years of practice your mind is inevitably influenced. Soon every day's activities are considered from your own point of view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation...