Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without a note or chart or map, Kennedy stood with his back to a roaring fire and proceeded to analyze the U.S. political situation from top to bottom, from Kennebunkport to Ketchikan. His facts were encyclopedic: he knew the people, the problems-and had ideas about what he hoped...
...been cutting into their trade, President Nasser has been getting more aid from both East and West, and the U.N. has failed to secure passage for Israeli goods through the Suez Canal, even when carried in ships of other countries. After several years of quiet diplomacy, a familiar old note was struck in Ben-Gurion's militant warning last week to his people: "During the next decade we are liable to face a grave and perhaps decisive military test...
...said Lutheran Hoyer, "we pointed out that as far as the Christian Church is concerned, we have no alternative but to bring the Gospel to the Jewish people and to all others; to neglect them or to leave them out is to discriminate against them. We were pleased to note that, when thus presented, this position was graciously accepted in every case...
This is a test to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. For most of the 100 questions there are four choices-and only one is the correct answer. Be careful: note that in many cases all but one of the four alternatives are true, which makes the false alternative the correct answer to the question. Any number can play if those taking the test merely write the letters representing their answers on a sheet of paper and make no marks on these pages. The correct answers are printed on page...
...emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1940. The alleged Graves was a recent acquisition (price: $200), had been lent to the gallery as part of a show of his collection. Before stalking out of the gallery and heading back to Ireland (where he now lives), Graves scribbled a note to Selig: "I'm outraged that these fake 'Graves' paintings are getting into good collections such as yours and onto the New York market. I destroyed this...