Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Conant underscored the point, the West had begun to sense that the U.S. was in the midst of a serious updating of its foreign policies, designed to meet the new Russian approach and to deal with a world relaxed by Russian displays of nonbelligerence, trade negotiation and foreign economic aid. The generalized NATO proposal, which Dulles will discuss broadly in Paris this week with the NATO ministers' council (see FOREIGN NEWS), was one instance-and a symbolic one. The U.S. plans no weakening of NATO's essential defense function, but wants to add to defense...
...approach has other aspects. In his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors last fortnight, President Eisenhower went out of his way to identify the U.S. with the independence-urge of young governments, and asked for tolerance of treaty-wary neutralists. The Administration wants to put foreign aid on some sort of long-range basis, extending as far as ten years. Last week the U.S. added 700 items to the list of nonstrategic goods, e.g., rubber products and photographic equipment, that exporters may ship to European Communist nations...
...White House and asked whether the action might not have been too abrupt. Then Old Soldier Eisenhower drew some lines on a piece of scratchpaper to show Old Farmer Benson that, in military action, there are two ways to reach an objective-the direct way, and by a zigzag approach. Advised Ike: try to understand the merits of the zigzag...
...lodge for farm families, the Grange still holds to some of its secret rituals, goes in less than the other farm organizations for lobbying. It supported this year's farm bill, but generally stands somewhere between the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, favors a commodity-by-commodity approach to the problem of farm supports...
...speech Kurchatov obviously did not tell all he knows, but he did make a closer public approach to one aspect of controlled fusion than anyone has made before. Far from sticking to generalities, he went into technical detail-with photographs, curves and figures...