Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dismal Conclusion?" Recognizing that "it is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord," the 34-year treaty forbids any military use of Antarctica or any nuclear explosions there. To make sure no nation cheats, each signatory has the right of unlimited inspection. Each nation may establish bases for research or exploration wherever it pleases in Antarctica, but it must suspend its territorial claims for the duration of the treaty. In the meantime, no other claims will be recognized...
...rule," Belgian colonial administrators carefully preserved the tribal system. The result was a painful anachronism: a people dominated by primitive loyalties suddenly presented with the tools of modern industrial society and the trappings of independence. To Moise Tshombe and his Katangans. no one in Leopoldville has any legitimate interest in gleaming little Elisabethville (pop. 177,000), the Congo's second largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines...
...remade the school, went on to do the same job at the University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation. He has since disbursed some $50 million to jack up economic research on campuses across the world. His passionate interest: broadening management training, which he defines as "preparation for an uncertain future...
...thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute as that of Water Birds, in which whooping cranes mated to Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, but it is bad enough. Presumably it is supposed to hype up interest, but jaguars are too accomplished at scene stealing to need help from massed violins...
...President, according to Professor Martin, "must greet and support men and governments that flagrantly violate Christian and democratic principles." He must use coercion in the interest of order, "participate in the dissemination of propaganda that is at best only partially true and is, moreover, the stuff that feeds suspicion and hate." He must also be tolerant, and "faith loses force as tolerance grows." Concludes Martin: "It follows that a determined Christian would be a weak President and that a strong President must be (and historically has been) a weak Christian...