Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Football Writers Association and attending the Baltimore Colts-College All-Star football game in Chicago, speaking on radio and television about his trip to Russia and Poland, even getting a surprise pat on the back from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who praised the work of Nixon's anti-inflation committee. Republican Hopeful
...which Macmillan supporters credit him with sparking-and has seemingly not been hurt at home by Labor's effective jabs at British colonial failures in Africa. But above all, Macmillan owes his popularity to Britain's current prosperity. Two years ago Macmillan gambled on a politically unpopular anti-inflation budget and an unprecedented increase in the bank rate to 7%. This year these austere fiscal policies of the Conservatives have paid off-in more ways than...
Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
...York District Attorney Frank Hogan exploded, blaming the U.S. embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
...situation with more insight than Reporter Gibney, a LIFE staff writer. With authority, humor, and political sophistication, Gibney describes how paradox has become a law of life in a country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...