Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew the man hailed in British headlines as "Supermac" and enthusiastically billed, on the way to British elections, as political leader of the free world. With each approaching mile, the blips showed more clearly that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meant to persuade the U.S. to relax some of its basic cold-war policies. Forewarned by London press leaks and by its own intelligence from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower's Catoctin Mountain hideaway, Camp...
...Camp David the heavyweights of the U.S. and Britain were committed, and in the months to come their energies would be turned to working out the mechanics of the summit conference, and, far more important, their differences over such basic free-world policies as Berlin and the unification of Germany. The leaders of East and West had last met at the summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more...
Northern Rhodesians trooped to the polls last week to elect new members of the legislative council, under new provisions that increased the number of registered black voters from an absurd four in 1954 to 7,617 (out of a total black population of 2,500,000). Once again the basic issue was whether there should be a Federation at all. Burly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who in the face of increasingly insistent African demands has grown less and less keen about any actual partnership, plunged into the territorial campaign with a plea aimed directly at the whites. Only...
...plot is still basic Austen. The aristocratic Mr. Darcy (Farley Granger) falls in love with Elizabeth (Polly Bergen), one of the five Bennet sisters. She dislikes his arrogance as sincerely as he dislikes her middleclass, mercenary mother. It is a classic case of love at first slight. As Darcy, Hollywood's Farley Granger is the stuff telephone poles are made of. TV's Polly Bergen makes a winning Elizabeth, but the ex-Pepsi Cola Girl seems to be selling her part rather than playing it. As Mrs. Bennet, the huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls...
Last week doctors and hospital administrators on both sides of the Atlantic were debating whether mother had to desert Laura. Stimulus in the U.S. was publication of Robertson's book, Young Children in Hospitals (Basic Books; $3), arguing that hospital restrictions on visits to child patients are needlessly damaging, and that with a child under five, mother should be allowed to go into the hospital and stay-even if it means sleeping on a cot beside the child's crib. Britain's Ministry of Health accepted the idea and declared in a special report: "This...