Word: opening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should not become an object of political conflict and should be open for the conduct of scientific investigations." At week's end it seemed a foregone conclusion that the twelve nations meeting in Washington would wind up by signing a treaty embodying the two "high principles" of the original Eisenhower invitation: 1) a temporary freeze on the political status quo in Antarctica...
...with the U.S. -and even then there is always the temptation to pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon have to give in and change our position...
...effect, Ambassador Cabot asked the critics of the U.S. to inform themselves and reconsider. "Brazil could adopt a new political orientation," warned Cabot, "only at the cost of endangering her own security as well as that of the U.S." Brazil's press threw open its columns, gave Cabot's blunt talk big and generally favorable play...
...fall have made mistakes and watched the Trojans go, including the Big Ten's sturdy Ohio State, which gave up a humiliating 301 yds. on the ground, gained only 84 in a 17-0 loss. Alumni are trying to forget that they eyed young (35) Coach Clark with open suspicion when he took over in 1957, promptly won five, lost 14 and tied one in two seasons...
...righteous and legitimate anger-and become, at last, devastatingly effective." Properly presented, he is as much a part of American legend as the super-cowboy, just as surely escapes the conventional, rule-ridden world by taking the law into his own hands. He does not know the wide-open spaces or the purple sage, but the narrow, closed-in spaces of saloons, and the windswept, nighttime highway can give him a similar sense of freedom. "The Private Eye show," says David (Richard Diamond) Janssen, "has the same elements as the western: the hero is invincible; he gets the girl...