Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Retire? Even more damaging has been mounting evidence of Congress Party corruption, epitomized in the public mind by the insurance scandal that led to the ouster of ex-Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari (TIME, March 3). In Delhi, another longtime Congress Party stronghold. Congress candidates last month won only 31 out of 80 Municipal Corporation seats. Three weeks ago in Calcutta, Siddhartha Ray, a bright young Congress Party minister in the West Bengal state government, resigned office with the angry charge that "the people who control the West Bengal Congress today [are] an unscrupulous section of rich industrialists...
...Club or the Romanoff's crowd, and I'm not going to start now. The viewers have to be able to identify themselves with the characters or you're going to lose them. I've always got the guy in Omaha in mind...
...sciences at Harvard, reassured alumni-H and non-H- who must pay for U.S. higher education: "Harvard today-with all American colleges-is committed more to the uneasy future than to the memorable past. And there is confidence here, a faith in the future of the human heart and mind...
Although his ashes have long since been scattered over his beloved Greenland settlement of Thule, Freuchen's restless mind still seems alive. After four months on the counters, his encyclopedic Book of the Seven Seas (Julian Messner; $7.50) remains a bestseller. Probably headed for the list is Freuchen's final work. The Arctic Year, written with Ornithologist Finn Salomonsen (Putnam; $5.95). It deserves a place alongside Freuchen's earlier, bulky volumes of autobiography as a classic study of life in the North...
...Seven Seas is the product of Freuchen's long, dark winters in Greenland, when his mind sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles...