Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat-were indicative of the way that quiet, resourceful Meade Alcorn operated (TIME, Jan. 19) as the G.O.P.'s top political boss. Last week the President grudgingly assented when Connecticut's Alcorn, after 26 turbulent months, offered his resignation (as of April 10) in order to return to his Hartford law firm (Alcorn, Bakewell & Smith) for urgent personal reasons...
Most Western diplomats hold that if Kassem ever does give way on the arming of the People's Resistance Force, the point of no return will have been passed in Iraq. Some pessimistic observers argue that Kassem is already so much a prisoner of the Reds that it is only a matter of time-and not too much time-until that point is reached. In the face of this looming diplomatic and strategic disaster, the U.S. and British policy of hands off in Iraq seems at first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open...
...turn the liberal Republican Chronicle into a breakfast treat instead of a treatment: curly-haired, puckish San Franciscophile Herb Caen (pronounced Cane), 43, the columnist who defected to Hearst's morning Examiner in 1950 for a doubled salary of $30,000. In 1957, Prodigal Son Caen decided to return (for $38,000 a year), leaving the Examiner (circ. 257,251) with little humor to perk up its somber pages. "The day I knew we had come around the corner," says Publisher Thieriot, "is the day Herb Caen decided to come back." Looking over his figures for 1958, Thieriot...
...icons which survive from before the 8th century. In 726, the Emperor Leo the Isaurian ordered all icons within the Byzantine realm destroyed to discourage idolatry. Only those at Mount Sinai escaped, since the monastery had fallen under Omayyad rule. The Moslems left the monastery in peace; in return, the monks allowed the Moslems to build a mosque within the monastery...
...Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return to your residence must be made by public transport." In the U.S. during the war, when promising soldiers were sent to colleges for engineering courses, the assignments were made alphabetically. The result: of 300 soldiers arriving at a small Southern school, 298 were named Brown...