Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burden of Ike's letter was a solemn warning that unless the Geneva conference made some progress toward ending the seven-month-old Berlin crisis, the U.S. would not agree to an East-West summit conference. In essence, Ike told Khrushchev the same thing that he told a White House press conference two days later: "I see no use whatsoever in trying to have a harvest when there is no planting and no tilling...
...today, at 76, seven years after his retirement from Harvard, Gropius has launched into a new burst of creativity. The Architects Collaborative (TAG), a group of keen younger architects he gathered around him at his Cambridge, Mass. headquarters, has all the commissions it can handle. The old Lawgiver has displayed an unexpected flexibility in design. "I was possibly too Puritan," he reflects. "Too much storming against the old traditions. Now I have, with the same conceptions, I hope, a more subtle, more delicate expression...
Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...corporate executive. For years many Bethlehem vice presidents have been paid more than presidents of larger companies. Last week Homer and the 19 other Bethlehem executives who share in the company's lush incentive plan took a drastic pay cut. As a result of a suit brought by seven minority stockholders, who complained that Bethlehem's brass is overpaid, the company proposed a new salary plan for stockholder approval July 28. If the plan had been in effect last year, it would have trimmed $2,200.000 from the total $6,058,226 pay of the top 20, made...
Died. Hitoshi Ashida, 71, Premier (1948) of Japan, who went to jail briefly when his scandal-ridden coalition government (though backed by General MacArthur) collapsed after seven months, a member of the Diet in the 30s, who criticized Japan's military aggression; of cancer; in Tokyo...