Word: war
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...war's end, he entered Columbia Law School, but decided after five months that the law was not for him. Before coming to TIME, he wrote reports for the Rand Corp. and Republic Aviation, read unsolicited fiction for The New Yorker...
...Pakistan's northwest frontier, past the snow-covered valleys that nestle in the Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki...
Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking...
Soon after World War II Italy, Holland, and Norway evolved their own charts. In Italy, under the Marshall Plan and private sponsorship, a table was developed to answer questions about the entire Italian economy and to assist in understanding the problems of relatively underdeveloped Southern Italy...
...this attitude fits in with his having taken what, in contrast to the Herter-Kennan-Pearson end of the spectrum, might be called a right-wing or Dulles-type position on summitry and other cold-war relaxation measures. Despite his acute political trendex-consciousness, Rockefeller need therefore not be accused of political opportunism. His views seem consistent, and in this your correspondent is quite correct. Rockefeller simply represents a right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background...