Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARGENTINA If three square meals and a good education could turn the trick, democracy would flourish in Argentina, South America's best-fed, best-educated nation. But democracy barely survives. Almost every week brings a new crisis and an old question...
...theme would have appealed to any opera composer from Donizetti to Kurt Weill: money and love. But particularly the former, since as Somerset Maugham put it, "In the end. all passions turn to money...
...coat-hanger form and let them dangle and twirl. Finally, Calder settled on free forms, flying leaflike on the ends of metal branches strung from wire. "Mobiles" were born, and their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern...
While most businessmen are worried about tight money there is one New York businessman who has never been happier. His name: Ivor B. Clark. His business, which can only be enhanced by a tight-money situation: finding lenders to put up money on propositions that they might ordinarily turn down. Clark, 69, is so good at his job that in half a century he figures he has found close to $1 billion for borrowers. And last week Money Finder Clark was dickering on the biggest deal of his career: arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic...
...Siege at Peking, Peter Fleming, an able journalist (onetime London Times correspondent) turned military historian (Operation Sea Lion-TIME, July 22, 1957), does not dwell overlong on the corrupt, decaying empire of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who was only too glad to turn the wrath of the masses from herself. Instead, he concentrates on the rise and fall of the hordes of shrieking peasants who called themselves "Fists of Righteous Harmony" ("Boxers," said a missionary, giving the rebellion its name). Against them for eight weeks stood a handful of isolated foreigners, including some of the great names of future...