Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic Magna Carta. But there are far more positive ways by which the rule of law can be extended to world affairs. Much of the turmoil in modern international relations comes from the fact that new nations, arising from the ruins of colonialism, require capital for their national development, but are afraid of the political dependence that goes with it. Lawyers ask: Why not an international agreement that sets down the political rights and the economic responsibilities of the borrowers? Last year, speaking at the International Industrial Development Conference in San Francisco. German Banker Hermann Abs issued a ringing call...
...most colleges; last summer 3,900 of New York City's brightest students applied, and only 750 were accepted. Occasionally, critics complain that such selectivity is undemocratic; others, notably onetime Harvard President James B. Conant, who is engaged in an intensive study of U.S. high schools, argue that modern comprehensive high schools can provide the varied training needed by all kinds of students, bright ones included...
Hallmark Hall of Fame: In a faultless presentation of the modern crime classic Dial M for Murder, Actor Maurice Evans again showed the British capacity for making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club...
...avoid "sensation," Heisenberg will not even publicly release his equation until next month. But physicists look for much from Heisenberg, head of the famed Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, and often called Einstein's successor. In 1932 Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for one of modern physics' key laws, "the uncertainty principle," which holds that subatomic events cannot be observed individually without changing them by the very act of observation...
Dodging Bargains. Walter Bareiss, 38, is showing 50 oils, sculptures and drawings in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's Rockefeller Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls...