Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election year, Harry Truman recently observed, Americans behave somewhat like primitive people at the time of the full moon. As this year's political debate warms up, TIME is offering its subscribers a new gadget that will help settle many an argument, perhaps touch off a good many more...
Though born in Madrid, far from the rugged Basque region athwart the western Pyrenees, Galindez considered himself a citizen of the short-lived autonomous Basque republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking...
...world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted hair, silver necklace, lace, drawstrings and bows are presented distinctly. But it would be hard to guess how Margaret looked from the side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb as well as typical limning. Margaret neither looms out of the picture nor shrinks into it, but stands quiet and assured, with soft gestures and thinking eyes...
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Doris Day; Columbia). More about the mystery of life, but with a fatalistic twist and a helpful touch of peasant philosophy. The answer to all queries: "The future's not ours...
Some companies still contend that fundamental research should all be done on the campus, where it is free from sales-department pressure. Others work closely with universities. Du Pont helps keep in academic touch by retaining 70 university professors as consultants. Many company research centers, e.g., G.E.'s Schenectady laboratories, cultivate a "congenial" atmosphere of academic leisure. Industrial jobs frequently give top scientists greater freedom than university posts...