Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corruption. He is a frequent, admiring visitor to the U.S. "I love to stroll in the streets of New York," he says, "lost among 8,000,000 people. There, one is just an atom." He intends to continue Mexico's policy of close friendship with the big neighbor to the north...
...rifle practice came in handy later. When Miller was working on the King Ranch cover story (TiME, Dec. 15, 1947), he went on a one-day hunt with Tom Armstrong, neighbor of King Ranch Chief Robert Kleberg Jr. After Miller dropped his first wild turkey with a shot through the neck, Armstrong, thinking it a lucky shot, politely hailed his marksmanship, poured a toast of bourbon in a tin cup. A second turkey, shot through the head, called for another toast. After Miller had shot a deer through the neck and another in the head, there wasn't much...
...Miller's cover stories was on his Chappaqua, N.Y. neighbor, Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace (TIME, Dec. 10). Between the time Miller made his first phone call to Wallace in April 1951 and the time the story ran, Digest editors had selected two of Miller's cover stories for reprinting - on Du Pont's Crawford Greenewalt and U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless. The Digest also reprinted Miller's article on human relations in industry (TIME, April 14), one of the most reprinted stories in TIME'S history...
...Once Again ..." The critics next day were sharply divided. Mildred Norton of the Los Angeles Daily News called the cantata an "essay in boredom," and added: "The most invigorating sound I heard was a restive neighbor winding his watch." Wrote Albert Goldberg of the Times: "Perhaps only a musician can appreciate the extreme technical discipline involved ... It makes no obvious appeal to anything within the range of the average listener's experience, yet by its very starkness it creates a perfect setting . . . for the old English texts involved. Once again, it would seem, Stravinsky has opened new paths...
...long as the U.S. felt the Good Neighbor Policy was a self-operating mechanism needing little oil, this deterioration was bound to occur. Since the days of Sumner Welles and President Roosevelt the U.S. has ceased to be an active good neighbor. Instead of making the policy a full time job, the State Department has allowed problems to become crises before acting on them. The Secretary of State, for example, who shuttled regularly to Europe and back, visited South America only once in the last four years...