Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions, the Lisbon meeting accepted the "Wise Men's" recommendation for a total NATO defense expenditure of $300 billion in the next three years. For the first time, the NATO nations adopted a unified economic program for sharing defense costs and spending the money in a coordinated...
Commendable as the Wise Men's efforts were, it was notable that NATO, which was formed in 1949, took until 1952 to get itself a single, sensible economic blueprint. Acheson frankly recognized that it was only a blueprint, that the $300 billion has still to be appropriated by 14 national Parliaments, including the U.S. Congress...
...before Acheson spoke, Premier Edgar Faure's French government fell on the very issue of raising the tax revenue required by the Wise Men (see FOREIGN NEWS). Here was a solid warning of how fragile the whole Lisbon web might be. Embarrassed, Acheson merely noted that the French cabinet crisis "illustrates the problems which will arise...
...ruins of the Cornish Castle of Tintagel. It soon develops that the romantic young man is in love with the beautiful young girl, even though she is married and her husband is along. About the time this situation has begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed in brilliant medieval array...
...BARRY F. SACHS of Straus, PHILIP PERERA of Straus, PAUL D. MAGGIONI of Dedham, Mass., GEORGE F. BAUM of Holworthy, JOHN T. WHATLEY of Stoughton, and GERALD A. LEWIS of Matthews. Standing, from left to right are J. TIMOTHY ANDERSON of Lionel, PETER L. MALKIN of Wigglesworth. DAVID L. WISE of Thayer, and CHARLES T. WOOD of Wigglesworth...