Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everywhere could repair. In World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt so harried Churchill about Britain's colonial possessions that during one wartime conference Churchill cried: "Mr. President, I believe you are trying to do away with the British Empire." In 1942 when Sir Stafford Cripps unsuccessfully tried to reach a settlement with India's nationalists, a U.S. representative took part in the negotiations-a step which, together with Roosevelt's constant prodding of the British, encouraged Gandhi and Nehru in their fight, thereby hastened the independence of India and Pakistan...
...done. Jesus told me that celibacy is no longer necessary." Anxious disciples wanted to know whether the marriage (the bride's identity is still secret) would make any difference to the movement. Said Zarur: "Brothers, we will go on being God's workers. Our ideal may even reach inhabitants of other planets." Other planets have shown no interest, but on this one, the Legion is enrolling new members at the rate...
...starting at midyear. Now they have put the turn farther off, barring a tax cut that might give the U.S. a fast boost. Most economists agree with harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who says: "It will be six months before the economy shows much pep." They think the recession will reach bottom soon, may be there even now. Then, say economists, it will rock along on a relatively even keel for six months or more before turning gradually upward in 1958's final quarter...
...swept with sentimentality when I saw the reproduction of the moss garden of Kyoto's Saihoji monastery. While stationed at Johnson Air Base, near Tokyo, I used to know a patch of wood that resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot was like another world. Most of us will never see Japan again, and many thousands of veterans, I'll wager, felt a lump in the throat while looking at your Art section...
...Navy's program for ten atomic carriers, each to be equipped with nuclear bombers that can reach Russian targets from the sea; cost: $3 billion...