Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen, after a private talk and a round of photographs at the White House with Ike. One reason for the White House visit: the U.S., which will seek agreement on a five-point plan aimed at nuclear-and conventional-arms reduction, feels that Russia, economically hard-pressed and anxious to improve its international reputation, may present some new and realistic proposals of its own-and Washington wants to flag the Russians that Negotiator Stassen, despite his recent political difficulties with Administration leaders (TIME, March 11), has Ike's full, personal authority to deal...
Macmillan has other topics he is anxious to discuss with Ike. He would like the U.S. to join the Baghdad Pact, at least as a member of the military committee. (The U.S. will probably refuse, on the ground that to do so would alienate other Arab countries which the U.S. is trying to influence through the more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain...
...presumably where they picked up their sympathy for Castro. About three weeks ago they slipped away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking up foreign arms...
...course, your servants. We are anxious to give you the best education we can. We want you to be exposed to all schools of economic thought and in the discussion of economic policies to all ideologies. Your college education, inclusive of income foregone, costs you or your parents at least $25,000. We want to make it worth your while. We welcome your suggestions...
...prosecutor, a hard-driving U.S. district attorney named B. Hayden Crawford. Readers who flooded the paper with letters supporting Bulloch last week could only assume, as the Tribune does, that some of the liquor runners and prostitutes who testified before the grand jury may have been more anxious to quash Bulloch than bootlegging...