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...plane were 79 other Europeans cleared for immigration into the U.S., including a biochemist, whose entry into the U.S. was being sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. In recent years tens of thousands of immigrants like the Suritis had streamed through New York, causing little more stir than an 8:04 commuter train coming from Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: One in a Million | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Stir Crazy. In Vancouver, B.C., after being relieved of $20 worth of coffee spoons per month. Do Xut House Co-Owner George Piekarske decided to put an end to the pilfering once and for all, drilled nice big holes into the bowls of all his spoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Ford, which under Henry II's grandfather spent a lot of time and money trying to foist Ford's singular economic and political views on employees and the general public, has become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Politics at Ford | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...stir without great argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rightly to Be Great . . . | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...great prestige in their own lands, each freshly and widely traveled in the era of personal diplomacy. It was this evident new worldliness in Russia's Khrushchev that led the West to hope that he would bring to the summit a desire to avoid crises rather than to stir them...

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

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