Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most attractive aspect of his greatness was that he managed to be a kind of human golden mean-wise, moral, prudent, without being dull. This first volume of his collected papers gives readers the happy chance to get reacquainted with Franklin's winy wit, sage maxims and arrow-swift mind...
...WORLD of swift economic transformation and growth must also be a world of law. The time has come for mankind to make the role of law in international affairs as normal as it is now in domestic affairs...
...prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...
Despite President Eisenhower's call for a swift steel peace (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), management and labor could agree last week only to continue disagreeing. Just before both sides met with federal mediators for the first time since a Taft-Hartley injunction sent the workers back to the plants, the steel industry announced that its earlier offer of 30?-an-hour package spread over three years was its "last offer for a strike settlement." This so incensed Steelworkers President David McDonald that he walked into the meeting heatedly waving a copy of the statement. He repeated union arguments that...
Blunt Inquiry. Protestant reaction to the statement was swift. It was tragic, said Dr. John C. Bennett, Congregational minister and faculty dean of New York's Union Theological Seminary, to see Catholic leaders pressing "a point of view . . . which has no sound moral or religious basis, and which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded...