Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of this type of work-shop is that of Donald Menzel, professor of Astronomy, who will "supervise a research project on the growth and behavior of sunspots." Members of this technical team of about eight freshmen must have "a real interest in this field and be qualified to participate effectively as a member of a research team--either as an astronomer or as a physicist, mathematician, or writer." As an added requirement members of the workshop are expected to enroll in Astronomy 1, as well as to audit courses in related fields...
Career Diplomat Philip Wilson Bonsai took on his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba last February full of high hopes and the desire to "get to know Fidel Castro personally." He at first counseled patience with Castro's erratic behavior. But for the past three months, while U.S. citizens were arrested by whim and the $850 million U.S. investment in Cuba was threatened with confiscatory decrees...
Gnat Bites. To suggestions that all this bordered on abuse of press freedom, Britain's editors could point with some justice to the public behavior of Adenauer and De Gaulle. Recalling the radio speech in which Adenauer charged that Fleet Street was being manipulated by anti-German "wire pullers" (TIME, April 20), London's Economist declared: "Dr. Adenauer has chosen to make a political issue of the gnat bites of individual British critics, and to make use of them in opposing British policies." Along with the Economist, most Britons professed to find it hard to understand...
...considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle's, and urging increased U.S. pressure on De Gaulle to "reopen Europe's doors...
...crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...