Word: questions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru in unlikely places. In Afghanistan last September, when Nehru was touring a model village, he noticed a familiar figure inspecting the next hut, said in surprise: "I didn't expect to find you here, Mr. Connery...
...recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful of the furor raised by the U.S. Catholic bishops' recent statement opposing such use of U.S. funds (TIME, Dec. 7), Ike gave the question an answer calculated to snuff it out as a political issue...
...jolly veterans who comprise the American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted...
...proclaimed. But Adenauer was disturbed. In recent weeks, De Gaulle has openly proclaimed his intention of establishing France as an "atomic third force" and explicitly rejected the concept of integrated European defense that is the foundation of NATO strategic planning. When Adenauer landed at Orly Airport last week, the question uppermost in his mind was whether he could maintain his alliance with Gaullist France without undercutting his longstanding and deeper dedication to NATO...
Cigarette, cigarette, who's got the cigarette? This is the question that provides the main interest in Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanne, which is receiving a 50th anniversary production to the very week at the hands of the Harvard Opera Guild's workshop...