Word: news
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RANGED around the world TIME has the largest corps of correspondents reporting to any single publication -more than 440 fulltime and part-time reporters. Most of their time is spent in the hard, not necessarily glamorous job of reporting, observing, analyzing-and thinking-about the news. But at times, perhaps more often than the reporters for most other publications, they have a story that leads to real adventure. Such was the case with this week's color-picture story on the vast, wild Amazon River basin...
...Where does the power lie in this alliance?" demanded a senior U.S. official last week. Firmly he answered himself: "It rests here in Washington." But the need for asking the question was as significant as the confident answer. For, to judge by the news last week, the pace, perhaps even the policy of the alliance, was being set, if anywhere, in the office of the President of France...
...seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...
...glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...
...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...