Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind them were tension-ridden weeks of politicking, rumblings of military coups, intrigue and insult. In the struggle for votes, one Deputy jailed on a murder charge was let out to cast his ballot; another, who had been hospitalized by an auto accident, was badgered daily by special pleaders; another resigned his seat in protest against continual harassment...
...star flag beside the Stars and Stripes. To men in New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok and Morocco, tiny Puerto Rico, which has clawed its way in 15 years to a nearly doubled standard of living, spoke an urgent message of hope through self-help-and spoke it with the special clarity of a teacher who is only ten pages ahead of the class...
There was nothing surprising about the scores; the New York Yankees were supposed to beat their kissin' cousins, the Kansas City Athletics-even if the A's were in second place. Still, there was something special about the doubleheader that dragged through a damp afternoon and evening at Yankee Stadium last week. For those two games told the story of American League baseball in the summer of 1958: when Yankee hitters were hot, their pitchers held off the opposition and they breezed home (10-2). When Yankee hitters were helpless, their pitchers held off the opposition and they...
...refused to see Rinaldo until she was released from her vows* by special papal dispensation. Last week Onetime Nun Alba was settling down with her husband Rinaldo in a three-room flat in the Tuscan village of San Romano. "Just think of it," wrote the weekly Settimo Giorno, "a happy ending...
...blueprint for boosting world trade and developing backward countries was laid down this week in Foreign Economic Policy for the Twentieth Century, third in a series of special reports by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (TIME, Jan. 13). Said the report: "There exists no vocal constituency for foreign economic policy. As a result, foreign economic policy has all too often become simply a response to a series of separate crises. Nothing is more important, therefore, than to bring about the conviction that a sustained and imaginative policy is crucial not only for our self-interest but for the peace and well...