Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Variations on a Theme. But the whites know that their time of unquestioned domination will soon be over. South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself-the ruthlessly logical racist who looks so much like a kindly Kris Kringle -has lately added a "positive" side to apartheid. "In the year 2000," he once explained in his high professorial voice, "we should expect the Bantu population to number 19 million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white...
...third General Assembly of the World Council will probably be held in New Delhi in 1961. Its theme: "Jesus Christ, the Light of the World...
...discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really 'a new Ike' at all, but a new reflection of that captivating figure, the 'old Ike' of London and Paris and the prepolitical days of long ago . . . He is now the man of action again, moving and planning and speaking...
...book rights. Attorney DeOrsey counseled the astronauts to negotiate separate contracts for television and movie rights, product endorsement and, in DeOrsey's words, "things you couldn't imagine." The "things," added DeOrsey, do not include a bid from a bank to open an astronauts account with the theme: "They might take a risk in space but when it comes to what they do with their money on good old earth . . ." DeOrsey coldly turned the offer down. LIFE has assigned three staffers to stay with the seven astronauts during most of their rigorous conditioning period, has a first article...
...Spangled Banner celebrates the fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem -"Poland is not yet lost"-could serve as the theme of this book. The Frozen Revolution undertakes to explain how it happened that Poland is still there and that its cause-vital to the West-is not yet lost...