Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if the enthusiasm that is presently being shown for Von Braun is shared by the fathers and mothers of those little English boys and girls who were killed by his V-2 rockets...
What has happened to the thinking of the clerical and lay delegates of the Episcopal Church in electing Dean James A. Pike as their Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California? Just from reading his life story in your Feb. 17 issue, I wonder how long he will believe in Protestantism-next step atheist...
Three-Legged Horse. Sukarno came back to Djakarta full of wonder. "I've seen the answer in China," he told inti mates. "Now we must do something. Ev ery country in the world seems to make progress but Indonesia." His new political idea: "guided democracy." It was based, he said, on the ancient village idea of gotong-royong, mutual help, a sort of village meeting where all the elders discuss and discuss a proposition until they are in unanimous agreement. There was no vote, because votes produce majorities and minorities, and such division of the people leads to unhappiness...
...Bombay judge to make a special inquiry. Testimony brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...
...seven weeks of competition, from the big New South Wales state meet to the nationals in Melbourne, Aussie youngsters had splashed to 31 new world marks. The incredible Konrads kids-Ilsa, 13, and John, 15 (TIME, Jan. 20)-accounted for 16 all by themselves. Awed Americans are beginning to wonder whether down-under champions are just born swimming in full career...