Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolstered by his hope that Secretary Dulles may recover sufficiently to return to office, President Eisenhower has not given any serious thought to a successor. But those who know the President best-and who also fear that the problem of the successorship might soon become urgent-see these as the top five names...
...those place names around the world which come to mean not a landscape but a problem, few seemed more bound up in hatreds and hopeless intricacies than Cyprus. But after four years of bombings, murders and repression, after 508 deaths and the near collapse of NATO's Eastern wing, the bloody dispute over the British colony of Cyprus last week suddenly moved toward solution...
...quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
Dust was thick on the Kenya plains as touring Queen Mother Elizabeth beamed down at Narok on rows of proud, bellicose Masai warriors, resplendent in lion-skin headdresses. Touching briefly on a local morale problem, Her Majesty expressed the hope that rain would soon fall in Kenya, which had suffered a four-month drought. Hardly had she finished speaking when the rains came-so heavy that roads turned to sludge, and the Queen's car barely made it to the airstrip for her flight to Mombasa. But the Masai, water cascading off their lion skins, trudged happily homewards, more...
...most exciting meetings in the council's ten-year history. Cause of the stir: Pope John's dramatic announcement of an ecumenical council in 1961 or 1962 (TIME, Feb. 9), which will examine the question of Christian unity and may well include Protestant observers. The problem before the council: On what terms can other Christians meet with Roman Catholicism in the face of its insistence that it is the only true Christian church...