Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture venture. To be produced by him next year: a movie starring Italy's earthy Anna Magnani, in which she will play a woman in love with a wheelbarrow. "The name of the film will be The Wheelbarrow of Flesh" explained Dali, "and she will find in that object all the qualities and charms of a human being . . . it's terrific...
Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four. Its object: to train "rising young leaders" in non-Communist nations to help solve their countries' most urgent social and economic problems...
...based on his work. Preparation for this exam would come from attending special discussion classes once a week besides going to lectures at his own convenience. But if the student loafed through the first two years, and failed the exam, there would be no third or fourth year. The object would be to have learning more continuous and meaningful; students would not be constantly concerned with cramming...
During their visit, Lewitt-Him hope to line up some U.S. clients, and feel sure their ideas will not be lost on Americans. "If you can find something interesting in an object," says Le Witt, "you can interest other people. People like the vague bit of a puzzle, and once they get into it. they feel they are taking part in the creation of it." "Just," concludes Him, "as they accept the challenge of a crossword...
...decisions are taken out of military hands and given to civilian scientists. at the present time, all weapons research is directed by officers of the three services. These men are neither stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that its brass be trained...