Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking...
...scenario of an old Sydney Greenstreet movie, but the main character was all too real. Rugged, soft-voiced Ted Lewin, 52, is an American ex-prizefighter with a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso...
...Nairobi a young British colonist shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised to "put the darkness behind us" in Kenya (TIME, Nov. 23), and last week Peter Harold Richard Poole, 28, became the first white man in the colony's history to be sentenced to death for the murder of a black...
...more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry) and a clever young man assail or try to enlighten the general, not because he dreams...
...past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who had already given. Last week the results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining...