Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO's Continental members, France is the only one that has refused Norstad authority to send its planes into immediate action in event of a Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...
...once they all seemed to agree," smiled Peru's President Manuel Prado last week as a chorus of assent from Latin American Presidents answered his call for a hemisphere-wide conference on disarmament. The U.S. Department of State hastened to approve the idea. Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay agreed to meet, and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi cabled "my firmest support...
After their marriage a year later, Owings bought the 55-acre site. Says Owings: "It was six hundred feet long, six hundred feet high and six feet wide," and the statement was only a slight exaggeration. What gave special relish to the job for Nat Owings was that in 32 years of designing, including work on such large-scale projects as Oak Ridge, Tenn., Moroccan airbases, and Crown Zellerbach's new building in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 7), he had never built a house...
...picture itself is just a wide-screen ("Totalscope") travelogue filmed two years ago in Red China by Italy's globetrotting Count Leonardo Bonzi (Green Magic, Lost Continent). At times the DeLuxe color photography by Pierludovico Pavoni and Alesandro d'Eva is magnificent. (Best scene: a mistily magical sequence in which the fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only...
...friend: "He is still the same old impossible so-and-so that he was in the Army - and he still produces results." Clay got most of his results by applying military-organization methods to the vast complexities of Continental Can. He decentralized Continental's muscle-bound operations, gave wide responsibilities to men in the field. He mapped out staff duties clearly, set up a system of written reports and regular executive meetings (with prepared agenda to save time). Shortly after he took over, he decided that packaging was undergoing a major shift from cans to other materials, acquired more...