Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From one of Nasser's clandestine propaganda stations, calling itself the Jordan People's Radio came this news report to the Arab people last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump...
...Madison Avenue. Sovetskaya Kultura, the official publication of the Ministry of Culture, last week complained that Russians are stupefied and bored by such headlines as "Buy jewelry in the shops of the State Jewelry Trade Organization" and "State Insurance is selling insurance for household goods." To get American-style hard sell, the Ministry of Culture called for "creative, talented people" to staff the new "Advertising-Publishing office" set up to improve shop-window displays, advertising signs and billboards on a nationwide scale...
...appeared that perhaps 50 of the 55 surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile's Jose Cardinal Caro Rodriguez, 92, both in poor health; Nationalist China's exiled Thomas Cardinal Tien, ailing...
...last week was told by the Russians that its Moscow bureau had become "unnecessary." CBS Moscow Correspondent Paul Niven got two weeks notice to clear out. Lamented CBS Vice President (in charge of news) Sig Nickelson: "The injury to CBS News is less than the injury to the American public, because this action destroys one more channel in the flow of firsthand information...
...ever there was a people ripe for a dictatorship, it is the American people today," playwright-novelist Gore Vidal, author of Visit to a Small Planet, said yesterday afternoon...