Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...received a satisfactory answer to the private letters (TIME, Nov. 10) in which he urged Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to admit France alongside Britain and the U.S. in a tripartite NATO "political directorate." It is an old French grievance that the U.S. grants full international partnership to Britain, yet treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians, has "world responsibilities," and unless the U.S. and Britain agree to coordinate their strategy outside Europe (most specifically in Algeria...
...does. He goes to Princeton, falls in love with a rich girl (Barbara Rush), joins the town's top law firm, and rises rapidly up the shingle toward a partnership. The hitch comes when he realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...
...little flag bearing the legend: "See, we can underestimate dangers and be optimistic, too." But recurrently they hark back to a theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...
...Persistent Partnership." Since the "strength, growth and vitality of our science and engineering . . . hinge primarily upon the efforts of private individuals." said the President, "I derive special satisfaction from the fact that this conference is sponsored by private interests [the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Science]. The Federal Government, with its vast resources, could largely . . . blunt private initiative and individual opportunity. This we must never permit." Government's role: "a persistent partnership" with private institutions...
...eager to show that he too was trying to make racial partnership work, Sir Roy named Jasper Savanhu as parliamentary secretary of the federal Minister of Home Affairs, the first black in all of Southern Africa to achieve so high a government post...