Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After reading TIME'S account of the sophomoric views of Sir Julian Huxley, one almost despairs of hoping that he and his better known brother Aldous will ever grow up to the size of their intellects. HERBERT O. WILLIAMS Arlington...
...customs of Christmas are many, but none are more enduring than the creation of a crèche, centered about the watching Mary and the Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story...
ANOTHER innovation in TIME this week is the global year-end review of business. Research for it came from 75 on-the-spot reports from staff correspondents and stringers around the entire world. In past years the review has largely concentrated on the U.S. economy. In 1959 it was apparent that the most interesting economic story of the year was the vast spread of U.S. ideas and U.S. methods to the world, not only to the already industrialized nations of Europe, but also to scores of underdeveloped lands just beginning the long march to prosperity...
...story, Correspondent George Bookman went on a five-week trip to seven European countries in the course of which he interviewed 96 top government officials, economists and businessmen. His report, bolstered by additional material from TIME'S European and U.S. bureaus, brought into focus a new American-type capitalism that around the world is replacing the old system of cartels and feudal wealth. The Tokyo bureau added the story of Japan's striking progress, while the Hong Kong bureau analyzed the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Southeast Asia. As other reports poured in from Latin America, Africa...
...think he's absolutely getting to love this," said a tired staffer. "He doesn't say so, but he'd have to be superhuman not to feel this way." In the third week of his 22,000-mile journey, Dwight Eisenhower indeed was having a wonderful time. In Iran, in Greece and in Tunisia, where monuments of great ancient civilizations still stand, the glowing pageant of people seemed to rush by like pages riffled in a history book...