Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such a proposal finds no support from our partners, we are prepared to start with a meeting of foreign ministers and then proceed to a meeting of chiefs of government...
First major U.S. city to count more Negroes than whites in its population: Washington, D.C.* Latest estimate by the city's health department: 438,000 Negroes (53%) and 387,000 whites (47%), a shift from 187,000 Negroes (28%) and 474,000 whites (72%) in 1940. Since today's Negro school-age population outnumbers whites 2 to 1, while whites concentrate in the middle and upper age brackets, the Negro majority will rise even higher in the next ten years...
Almost unnoticed, a startling shift of economic power has taken place: West Germany has toppled Britain from its position as the world's second-ranking (next to the U.S.) exporter of manufactured goods...
Until a few months ago, the Eisenhower Administration stoutly rebuffed the "national security" pleas of lobbyists, who wanted to block imports of such items as watches and woolens. But the wind recently began to shift: the new chief at the office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Leo Hoegh, tossed out a bid by English Electric Co. Ltd. to build two hydraulic-electric turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, instead chose a 21% higher bid from Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., thus giving some political help to Republican Congressman Hugh Scott (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week...
Last week, the announcement made, the problem was whether Religio-Politician Athenagoras could also swiftly heal the wounds opened by his maneuver. Some worried that the rumbling dissidents might try to force him out. Should they succeed, the seat of Eastern Orthodox Church power could well shift to the patriarchy called "the third Vatican"-Moscow. Against such fears stood the new reconciliation between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS), which tended to downgrade "anti-Turkish" charges against Metropolitan James. One of the Cyprus reconcilers: James himself, who in London last week helped swing Archbishop Makarios behind the agreement...