Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traps and Deeds. At week's end Britain's Cabinet was still divided. Most of its members were inclined to feel that diplomatic talks with the Greek and Turkish governments should precede conversations with Makarios. Others were dubious about Foot's desire to relax the stringent British security measures now in force on Cyprus. In bureaucratic circles both in Cyprus and London, there was a feeling that the new governor was being "a little bright-eyed about it all." In a New Year's message delivered in the form of leaflets scattered through Nicosia...
...will offer (subject to congressional approval) to relax the restrictions of the MacMahon Act in order to share with its NATO partners U.S. know-how in the military uses of atomic energy. It will also propose increased cooperation in scientific education, training and research, with particular emphasis on joint effort in weapons development and manufacture. Likely specific proposals: establishment of a NATO fund for educating budding scientists, establishment of a NATO missiles training and research center, an all-NATO program for exchange of weapons blueprints and designs...
...Museum, longtime (1940-55) policy-toppling director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled its annual attendance (over...
Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
Dean Bundy stressed that unless Harvard took the lead in providing a solution to the financial straits of higher education that other institutions would tend to relax...