Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrages, Geneva had finally focused down to one essential issue: the future status of Berlin. Last week, to the surprise of practically nobody, Western ministers unveiled to Gromyko the concessions that they were prepared to make over Berlin. The chief proposals, apart from a demand that Russia guarantee Western access to the city...
Perhaps the most valuable part of the retirement plan however is the custom of allowing out-going professors to retain their studies in Widener where they have easy access to all facilities of the library. Although there is no guarantee that a professor may keep his study, tradition is very strong and few retiring professors are ever forced to vacate the stacks...
...most of the Western diplomats directly concerned believed they held at least one strong hole card: Nikita Khrushchev's seemingly overriding desire for a summit meeting. Trading on this, the U.S. had already served indirect notice that any Russian move during the conference to shut off Western access routes to Berlin, or even to sign a separate World War II peace treaty with its Communist East German satellite, would result in an immediate Western walkout at Geneva and an end to all hope for a later summit conference...
...start it looked as if Houphouet had been overtaken by history. But behind the scenes he worked agilely to undermine the Mali, freely predicted that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...phenomenal growth of the world's museums means that any footloose traveler can now see ten times the masterpieces his great-grandfather had access to, even if that great-grandfather happened to be a duke. Guides to the major museums are easily come by, and visitors to Paris are not likely to miss the Louvre. But Europe also has great treasures still in private or semiprivate collections, secluded abbeys, obscure churches and castles that well repay the discriminating wanderer. TIME herewith begins a new color series of such Hidden Masterpieces...