Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower announced that he will definitely attend the December meeting in Paris of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Thus he hopes to dramatize the decision made in his recent Washington conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to weld NATO into a new unity, not just of arms and armies, but of all Western moral and material resources. One reservation in Washington's planning: the fear that too much emphasis on a Washington-London axis might distract the sessions from their urgent, NATO-wide purpose...
...catch her eye, Haynes wrote a second plea on birchbark, imploring her to reconsider. This time Mamie did agree to accept the makings of a coat, paid out $385 to have the 17 prime pelts, donated by two trappers' associations, fashioned into a finished garment (worth, said Haynes, some $1,800). Last week Mamie obliged by smilingly modeling the three-quarter-length, sleek, dark coat for White House photographers while Trapper Haynes and Archie Clark chattered happily to reporters...
Bluestone has written a fascinating and provocative book that should be of interest to all who view the future of the film with optimism--or pessimism--and to all who are interested in both these prime vehicles for cultural expression...
Against the dark background of the Soviet satellite, Russia's diplomatic rocket-rattling and fear of weakness in the free world's leadership, President Dwight Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met last week in Washington. They took an idea, which at first was little more than a hope. In their hours of sober consultation they shaped it, giving it life. The idea was simply that man's future lay not only in answering Soviet missiles with more missiles, but in the pooling of every moral and material resource that 50 free nations could bring to bear...
After he became Prime Minister of the new African state of Ghana, ambitious Kwame Nkrumah quickly discovered that the simplest way to deal with political opponents is to get rid of them. When two Moslem party leaders in Ashanti balked at Nkrumah's authority. Nkrumah rushed a bill through Parliament authorizing their deportation (TIME, Oct. 14). After hearing their appeals, Justice H. C. Smith, a Briton, ruled last week that Nkrumah was within his rights. "Since the Ghana constitution contains no safeguarding of fundamental rights." Smith wrote, "the court must uphold the law." The constitution allows Parliament to pass...