Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resent the party, charge that it offers little opportunity to intelligent newcomers. Of 13 chief ministers recently appointed in Congress-run states, five are over 65, three are over 70 and one is 75. Several Indian papers last week suggested that Nehru, like Burma's U Nu, should step down as Prime Minister to spend his time revitalizing the party, but it is not the kind of activity that appeals to Nehru. or that he is good at. Summed up one Indian: "The question is no longer: 'After Nehru, who?' It's: 'After Nehru, what...
...life and death of Dr. William Palmer is a sordid, shabby story of a man of natural ability who was never more than a step ahead of his creditors or his latest female conquest, but Graves has achieved the maximum of variety and color by making up accounts of people who knew Palmer and who tell their stories to the invisible narrator. Further, he has written in a remarkable imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife...
...outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes a step ahead of the capacity-of their once submissive but now impatient peoples...
...Publisher Loeb is made of more carefully tempered stuff than Wisconsin's McCarthy; few New Hampshiremen expect a censure resolution (a questionable step in this instance) to crimp his rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent...
...absence. The new boss: Executive Vice President Charles H. Brower, 55, the agency's top creative man, who was made general manager and vice chairman of the executive committee, and seems well established as Ben Duffy's heir apparent. Said Brower last week: "Nobody will ever step into Duffy's shoes -it's impossible...