Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays host to three pixilated old men who have lost their lodgings. Busy as the dwarfs in Snow White, they ply him with mystic mumbo jumbo and a brand of higher Dianetics called "time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear...
...Wisdom & Tirades. As the news spread through the South, the reaction was varied. In border states, e.g., Kansas and Oklahoma, officials calmly said that they expected segregation to be ended with little trouble. In Texas, Governor Allan Shivers said that his state will comply, but that it might "take years" to work out the details. From Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley came a quiet, wise reaction. He carefully read the full opinion, then told reporters: "I shall call together . . . representatives of both state and local governments to consider the matter and work toward a plan which will be acceptable...
Yesterday's historic Supreme Court decision to outlaw the segregation of races in public schools showed unusual wisdom, University and national authorities agreed last night. But it was emphasized, at the same time, that the ultimate effect of the high court's unanimous ruling must await fall hearings, at which the administration of non-segregation will be decided...
...great allies of the West spent the week in mutual recriminations. In the U.S., the charge was made that Britain had let the West down. The British retorted that only British steadiness and wisdom had saved the allies from hasty, dangerous and useless action. Even London's Economist observed: "If American opinion has the impression that Mr. Dulles' boldness is always being curbed by Britain's timidity, it is largely his fault for starting off with big talk and then coming down to less big doing...
...party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit into the party in Germany in 1922. With his administrative deftness, Chou helped Mao lay the steely wires of discipline and organization across China's 3,500,000 square miles...