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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer and correspondent for TIME. During the war, Cant made two extensive tours of the Pacific theater as a correspondent, wrote three books on the Navy's role there. An enthusiastic sailor (sloops, not stinkpots) and field birder, Cant carries over into these fields some of his passion for meticulousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Collected Letters of D. H Lawrence, edited by Harry T. Moore. A novelist and poet fabled for frankness and passion confirms his reputation in a fascinating collection of opinions on everything from lambs ("I loathe lambs") to fellow Englishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...address, the Secretary took off his glasses, leaned forward on the lectern, and reached into his pocket for some scribbled supplementary remarks. Then he reiterated his earlier point, "the vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or prejudice or an emotion of the moment." It was this gesture that led many members of the audience to believe to this day that the "Marshall Plan" was an impromptu stroke of genius that the General happened to toss out at the end of his prepared address...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: HARVARD HEARS OF THE MARSHALL PLAN | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Hughes, whose passion for privacy is equaled only by his delight in intricate business deals, has been tangled in legal battle with TWA for ten months. TWA charges that Hughes, who owns 78.2% of its stock, forced it to buy jetliners it did not want through his Hughes Tool Co., and is suing him for $150 million in damages. Hughes has countered with a $336 million suit charging that TWA's management is illegally trying to deprive him of control of the airline-but has consistently avoided the personal appearances in court demanded by TWA's lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Come In, Come In, Wherever You Are! | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...since the middle of the nineteenth century, when detached, scientific methods replaced intuition as the foundation for engineering many have feared a divorce of passion from technique, Nervi suggested...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: Nervi Ties Technique to Aesthetics, Urges Simple Style in Architecture | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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