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...keep up -with the news, an intelligent human being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra...
...march toward the summit, carry the promise of an enchanted spring of peace. But a remarkable number of show-me skeptics, foreign and domestic, are worried that the thaw may put the U.S. on even thinner ice in a cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, warned against the perils of negotiation. And Mr. Cold War himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
...PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep...
...months President Eisenhower's Administration has imposed a voluntary ban on nuclear testing while negotiating with the Russians at Geneva on how to set up international controls-and the ban has been extended to Dec. 31. In U.S. atomic weapons laboratories and in the Pentagon last week, there were no doubts at all that the U.S. should get on with its testing program as soon as possible. Reason: the nuclear-test moratorium is now damaging the nation's nuclear-deterrent power...
With the opening game against Boston College only a week away, there is strong indication that this year's hockey team will prove at least as successful as the Crimson eleven...