Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military issue is at stake, then why not cooperate with the Russians in space, avoiding expensive duplication of effort? Many Americans would probably favor this-in the highly unlikely event that the Russians ever agreed. But the duplication involved in competition is not all wasted. "In the past," says A. Edward Tyler, author of The Space Around Us, "war has been the great competition. It has made heroes out of individuals and even out of whole nations. Certainly the race for space is a better competition than war." In other words, the race may well become William James...
...Sato's most farsighted moves has been to join Asian regional groupings (TIME Essay, Feb. 3), which do not commit Japan to an aggressive foreign policy but will probably involve the country with its Asian neighbors. One organization in which Japan already has a stake is the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, whose first president is a former government finance adviser, Takeshi Watanabe, 60. With its $200 million funding toward the 32-nation bank's $1 billion capitalization, Japan matched the U.S. contribution. Said Sato: "A cornerstone is now being laid by all of us to establish...
...both are Swiss citizens) with their eight-year-old son Wolfgang, Christa's mother, a cook, a secretary and 27 pieces of luggage. They pick and choose their roles so that they can spend most of the year singing together at various opera houses. Wherever they are, they stake out "Christa's room" and "Walter's room" for private practice sessions; visits are allowed only for instant critiques. "We know each other's voices so well," says Christa, "that we can say 'Bad!', 'Good!', Too high!', Too low!' Our voices...
...clearly a case of one fraud patronizing another, and when Hudibras sees the astrologer's ludicrous array of tools-a stuffed crocodile, a Jacob's staff-he feels duped, and the two men quarrel. In another picture, a bloated effigy of Hudibras is ridden to a fiery stake by people who are finally fed up with Protestant reformers...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...