Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government out of business through legislation requiring the Administration to clear every cutback with committee chairmen (TIME, July 25), President Eisenhower has said that he will ignore the demand, has ordered 14 more federally operated businesses closed down. Among them: four coffee-roasting operations, two paint-manufacturing plants, a rope factory...
...original colors as the artist himself must have seen them." ¶rope, built a 120-ft. tree house in the jungle to get above the trees and came back with 4,000 negatives. (LIFE used 29.) ¶ Photographer Margaret Bourke-White dangled from a cable dropped from a helicopter for aerial views of the U.S. ¶ In a Florida lagoon. Photographer Hank...
RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TRADE has flopped so far. Though Russia and Japan signed an $80 million trade agreement last summer, year-long negotiations have produced only $9,000,000 worth of firm contracts, mostly for Russian coal, lumber, manganese and chrome, in exchange for Japanese wire rope, tugboats and fishing vessels. Reasons for the failure: high Red prices (20% higher than international levels), uncertain delivery and complex payment systems...
Plenty of Rope. Grant is first to admit that no two men are alike, even in "I-3ness." But the studies to date show that an I-2 or I-3 is likely to get into trouble: "He is relatively immature. And he's imperturbable. He doesn't care what others think of him, and before long the others lock him up. He doesn't care even then. An I-4 in civilian life doesn't have too much trouble. He gets sore at the boss, swears at him and quits, and is all right again...
...close-knit groups of 20 men who spend all their waking and sleeping hours with the same group. Says Grant: "Group living puts pressure on them. Now each is living with 19 others who have the same outlook. His opportunities to blame someone else are minimized. You give him rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded as almost hopeless, but Grant...