Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is a wise man he will know what to map in the Pacific this week." Chapin studied a Pacific map to find what might make him wise. The only possibility, he concluded, was the Solomon Islands. When U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal, TIME'S map was ready to go to press...
Before Vic and Walter confront each other, a Jewish-dialect comedian totters onto the premises in the form of an 89-year-old furniture appraiser. Gregory Solomon, a kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...
...Jerusalem last week, more than 1,600 rabbis and laymen gathered at the marble-colonnaded Hechal Shlomo (Solomon's Palace) for the first world conference of Orthodox Jewry. Although Orthodoxy is traditionally associated with the ghettos of Europe, more than a fourth of the delegates were American; mingling with rabbis wearing beards and ankle-length frock coats were clean-shaven men in business suits. Conversation turned on how to preserve religious tradition, but there were also lengthy debates on such present-day problems as how to reach out to the religiously alienated...
...meant it. Three teams were dispatched abroad to urge "cooperative action" from America's allies-one headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost of keeping American troops overseas by getting West Germany to buy $700 million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, former Ambassador to Switzerland, was looking into ways...
...group headed by Gainsbrugh: N.Y.U. Professor Solomon Fabricant, Du Pont Economist Ira T. Ellis, Michigan U. Professor Paul W. McCracken, American Airlines Vice President George P. Hitchings, Bank of America Vice President Walter E. Hoadley, U.S. Steel Economist William H. Peterson, N.Y.U. Professor Jules Backman, Bankers Trust Vice President Roy L. Reierson, Ragnar D. Naess of Naess & Thomas, investment counselors, Commerce Department Economist Louis J. Paradiso, and James W. Knowles, research director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee...