Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...than ever before. Within a month or so, almost all subscriber copies of TIME will be arriving at least a day earlier, and 90% of newsstand copies will be on sale by Tuesday. Reason: in a major operational shift last weekend, TIME changed its closing deadline to Saturday evening instead of Sunday. Under the new schedule, TIME'S full survey of the previous week's news will be available almost as soon as the new week begins...
Turning the Tables. This was the time for action. But Kasavubu merely went back to his residence, now ringed with a special force of U.N. guards, to await signs that the nation had risen to his support. Instead, the man who acted was Patrice Lumumba. Less than an hour later, he appeared at the radio station, brushed aside U.N. troops and broadcast his own message to the nation: "Congolese, stand firm!" he cried in his high, thin voice. "The government cannot be dismissed until it loses the confidence of the people, and the people are fully behind it." Then, having...
...Elliptically, he alluded to his own European dream: a French-led political confederation of the Common Market nations in which joint policy would be hammered out in periodic meetings of the Common Market premiers and reviewed by "an Assembly formed of delegates from national parliaments." (Snapped one German newspaper: "Instead of an integrated Europe. De Gaulle wants to restore a Europe of Fatherlands.") To get his scheme under way, De Gaulle had a dramatic proposal: "a formal European referendum so as to give this launching the character of popular support and initiative that is indispensable...
...heroine of Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans' new novel is as pretty as a picture, and she poses an interesting proposition. "Evildoing when done adroitly is very exciting." she purrs. What follows should be naughty and very funny. It is nightmarish instead-like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...
...that I can open into your city." A few months later, :he waters of the Euphrates began to lower as if by a miracle. When they were only knee-high, the army of the erstwhile 'servant" appeared, marching down the river bed to take Babylon without a fight, instead of attacking the thick city walls, the invaders had cleverly diverted the river into an abandoned reservoir...