Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit (TIME, Nov. 2). By delaying a summit, De Gaulle hopes to be able to ensure Russia's good behavior during the U.N. debate on Algeria. Fortnight ago summit-hungry Nikita Khrushchev swallowed hard and publicly proclaimed: "President de Gaulle's recent proposal that the Algerian problem be solved on the basis of self-determination . . . may play an important part in the settlement of the question." Until then, French Communists had dismissed De Gaulle's offer as "a political maneuver . . . intended to deceive democratic opinion," and the more rabid Chinese Communists called it "sugarcoated poison...
...Communist Party arose from one of those crow-eating feasts of "selfcriticism" that used to be held more regularly in Stalin's time. The French party's original stand, it now conceded, "was not quite in tune on certain points with the general analysis of the Algerian problem made . . . at the party's 14th and 15th congresses...
...future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...
...Professional Children's School, Lorin takes his lessons with him when he is touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice anywhere within earshot of one another...
...Came to Love Charles." Many of the nation's editorial writers were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment...