Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERHAPS on some desk in the Kremlin a date on a calendar was marked with a note, "Nixon in Peru," and a few days later another: "Nixon in Venezuela." But the explosive receptions that greeted Dick Nixon in those countries on those dates only moved the U.S. to a search for answers. "I was an American," wrote a TIME correspondent in Caracas, "and here before my eyes the Vice President of the U.S. was on the verge of very possibly being beaten to death. How in God's name could something like this be happening?" For some answers...
...Illinois state's attorney's office, the Cook County sheriff and even the Chicago police took up the search for the arsonists, but Chicago newspapers, well aware that Chicago police have yet to solve a single one of a string of restaurant bombings and burnings stretching back to 1950. were skeptical. "If investigators ... do no more than to go through the motions of making an inquiry." editorialized the Sun-Times, "other racketeers will only be emboldened to resort to similar methods in an effort to silence prospective witnesses in court cases as well as in congressional hearings." Added...
ONCE when old Georges Clemenceau was accused of bringing down one French government after another, he retorted: "But it's always the same government." Perhaps it was then, but is it now? For TIME Correspondent Godfrey Blunden's report on the tensions that grip Frenchmen as they search for a government-and their place in the 20th century - see FOREIGN NEWS, Paris in the Spring...
...University is intent upon its search for lebensraum it might devote the warm summer evenings to pondering the possibility of building parking lots. Such a solution to the parking problem might well be expensive, but it would at least reduce the issue to its financial form...
...Beer maintains that if the graduate's concern is with a "niggling, pedantic search for details," it is the department, rather than the student, which is at fault. "If you cast your net terribly wide" in accepting graduate students, he explains, you may well get graduates who are not as good as the Harvard student. In that case there will be prejudice for the undergraduate on the part of the instructor...