Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architects. Two dedicated men deserve most of the credit for the Common Market scheme. The idea was born to France's Europe-minded planner, Jean Monnet, who keeps a model of the Kon-Tiki on his desk as a symbol of those who take brave risks to prove an idea in the face of skepticism and indifference. The other man is NATO's newly chosen Secretary-General, Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who has presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe...
...reaction suited Architect Kirk right to the bottom of his T square. Said he: "It is too much to hope that the building itself can cure, but clearly it can be a symbol of health. I guess my psychiatric friends might say it's a back-to-the-womb feeling. But then that's been basic to all architecture since the comfort of the cave...
...Erie, Pa. last week, Alfred E. Perlman, president of the New York Central Railroad, ushered in a new symbol of 20th century progress for his venerable old line. Throwing a switch on a signal box (see cut), he formally opened a new 163-mile, electronically regulated stretch of double track between Cleveland and Buffalo. With the new system, the longest in the U.S., only two men seated before a light-studded control panel at Erie can automatically control all traffic between Cleveland and Buffalo...
...TIME'S authority is the National Gallery, whose experts agree that West's Indian, while not looking like other portraits of him, is indeed Joseph Brant. However, it is logical, they say, that West idealized him in his portrait as a symbol of his race. For West's and Stuart's portraits, see cuts...
...Middle East itself, reported seasoned observers, the President's plan was being read (as it was meant to be read) not only as an offer of U.S. help and a symbol of the U.S.'s support for the independence of Arab nations, but as a sharp warning that the Arabs should no longer try to play off East against West. And never was there more urgent need, reported these observers, for the U.S. to consolidate its position with skillfully applied economic...