Word: returning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev's assurances on nuclear testing at Camp David last summer. But against a backdrop of 15 months of frustration, the great hopes of Geneva are fading fast. The danger is that the real Soviet objective at Geneva is to halt U.S. weapons progress, while giving nothing in return, thus in effect disarming the U.S. by talk. And that, as Ike has insisted so many times, is precisely what the U.S. must guard against...
...Algiers, bald, spectacled Alain de Sérigny has long been the uncontested respectable leader of Algiers' European community, helped incite by his savage editorials the settlers' 1956 manhandling of Premier Guy Mollet (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956) and the 1958 uprising that sparked De Gaulle's return to power...
They concluded that the famed "Baalbek verandah" in Lebanon-a vast and ancient platform of huge stone slabs-may have been the launching site for the return trip of cosmonauts from another world. Though discounting the Bible as a source of revealed religion, Writers Rich and Chernenkov eagerly accept it as a historical document. References to angels descending to earth, they decided, may refer to travelers from outer space, "just as some hundreds of years ago the first Spaniards were taken for gods by the Indians." Such Biblical figures as Enoch and Elijah, who "reportedly" ascended to heaven, may have...
...mark. In South Africa there is no racial equality even in death; compensation laws grant a white miner's wife a pension for life of up to $93 a month. But a Bantu widow gets only a lump sum payment, which, if prudently invested, would give a return calculated at $9 a month. At week's end keepers of the fund were trying to decide whether or not to apply a similar ratio...
...this seamy landscape is Soldner, a decent schoolmaster who is appalled by the grossness of pupils and parents. There are exceptions, of course, and he falls in love with a fine woman who refuses to believe that her soldier husband, missing in World War II, will not one day return. It is her daughter, one of Soldner's students, whose nightmarish experiences give the book an aura of suspense that is more effective than its theme of corruption-by-money. The bearer of horror is a mentally unbalanced youth determined to have the young girl. His pursuit gives...