Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-power occupied area; on this "special status" of Berlin hangs much of the Western legal argument at Geneva. But the boss of West Germany's Bundestag, Eugen Ger-stenmaier, capturing the mood of many patriots, was determined to dramatize the opposite-that West Berlin indeed is part and parcel of the Federal Republic, which, according to a West German Constitutional Court ruling...
...winds of war scudded across the Caribbean last week. For the most part, it was a shouting war, between the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It was, in a way, a shooting war too, as Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo sent a 350-man force into the hills around the Dominican Republic town of Constanza to hunt down 20-odd survivors of a Cuba-based airborne rebellion (TIME, July 6). At the same time, Trujillo readied his guns-and bought new ones-to fight off a new invasion he said was headed his way from Cuba and Venezuela...
...half a century, The Netherlands' devout ex-Queen Wilhelmina, 78, has devoutly considered Amsterdam's good, grey Algemeen Handelsblad a routine part of breakfast. But recently, Wilhelmina leafed through her favorite newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious...
...previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million to $15 million ) collection...
...They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...