Word: actions
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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...
...mother (Patricia Neal) when she discovers that her child is deaf and blind. It is warmed by the first sound of the soft, self-assured brogue of Annie Sullivan arriving from Boston to take charge of Helen. It is nourished by the overwhelming urgency of Annie's every action, her passionate need to dispense with the amenities-and with the Keller family's sentimental softness-in order to get down to the awful business of unlocking a darkened human mind and heart. It is onstage through every moment of physical combat as the adult teacher descends...
...begins the story of The Golden Fish, a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...
...Delaying Action? In Manhattan, the Rev. Truman B. Douglass, vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches, said that his church's Ryder Hospital in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico is experimenting with contraceptive pills. "This service to the cause of population control." he said, "is a positive expression of Christian compassion and humanitarian concern...
...Government, continued Douglass, cannot improve the health and economies of other countries "and at the same time disown all responsibility for the population problem which success on these fronts greatly accentuates." The Roman Catholic Church is "staging a desperate delaying action" in "a battle which it knows is already lost. It knows that millions of faithful Catholics disregard its prohibitions in the practice of contraception, and do this with a clear conscience...