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...would require a reversal of his "less terror, more consumer goods" policy, and leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom and glimpsed an image of abundance. Accordingly, the argument runs, the forthcoming summit conference may be the beginning of a spell of peaceful negotiation rather than a mere lull between crises. Moscow seemed to echo this springtime mood of the Western world with a Pravda statement that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared to do everything to solve the German problem on a basis acceptable to the West as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Mood of the West | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Admiral Arleigh Burke's plan to spell Kom-munism with a "K" in the future [April 4], in order to identify it with Khrushchev, needs additional strategic planning. For "Khrushchev" is not spelled in Russian with the "K" of Kommunism, but with an "X," pronounced like the "ch" in "Loch." (In fact, Khrushchev should not be referred to as "Mr. K." but rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...proof? "My five-year-olds learn to write, count, add, subtract, divide; they learn basic geometric forms and elementary algebra; they use rulers and compasses; they learn to spell and to read 50 to 75 words. They understand the concept of zero, that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, that all radii of the same circle are equal, that 3/6 and 4/8 are also 1/2, that 4/3 is 1⅓|, and that if 3 is divided by 2 it becomes 1½." Moreover, next year's class will begin conversational French ("Fives love to imitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Outdated Kindergarten | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

Built for New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, makers of meprobamate (best known as Miltown), the model illustrated both basic brain physiology and the effects of various tranquilizing drugs, as reported by Dr. Harold E. Himwich of Galesburg State Research Hospital in Illinois. To spell out his findings, a 16-minute recording was played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unmasking the Brain | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...tuberculosis hospital. Behind him lie an army stretch marked by cowardice and a childhood marred by rich but weird imagination. He had peopled a sinister world in which the evil Vodi, led by a heartless witch, controlled human destinies; as an adult, he seems under her spell still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Room at the Bottom | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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