Word: effort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying, in a letter to Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, the President aligned himself with Humphrey's persistent effort to remove a major roadblock in the U.S. relationship with the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The roadblock: the so-called Connally Amendment of 1946, under which the U.S. reserves the right to bypass the World Court on any dispute that it considers "essentially domestic...
...issued after their week-long meeting in Washington, more than 200 Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops attacked popular talk of a world "population explosion" as "a smoke screen behind which a moral evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was "a systematic, concerted effort" to build support for the use of U.S. public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention is a morally, humanly...
Portly Fur Scion John Jacob Astor barely got off the legal ground in his effort to break the will of his late half brother Vincent and win an Astor-size slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million estate (TIME, Aug. 3). On the eve of the trial, J.J. threw in the towel, settled for a tax-free $250,000-a relative pittance that seemed little more than the price of sparing Vincent's executors the nuisance value of J.J.'s action. J.J. will be paid off by the Vincent Astor Foundation, whose main purpose is to improve...
...they rank him behind Meredith because he falls short of outstanding mastery in either-and mastery in a specialty is a prerequisite for the pro. Sure to be drafted: Notre Dame's George Izo ("He has a pure arm on long passes, there's never a forced effort"), and, although he will wait a year to play, Stanford Junior Dick Norman, an A-minus engineering student who this year had more completions (152) and passing yardage (1,963) than anyone who ever threw steadily against major opposition...
...Student Teacher Philip Lyons whipped a toga out of his briefcase. A tailor's cutter only a few weeks before, Lyons had just run it up on his own sewing machine. Last week, like 100 other middle-aging student teachers, Lyons was well launched in a startlingly successful effort to help beat Britain's shortage of 10,000 teachers. The scheme: Britain's first mixed adult teachers training college, brainchild of white-haired George Taylor, head of state schools in Leeds...