Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats charge the Administration has settled for "second best" defense; the Republicans believe the U.S. "has the strongest striking force in the world." The more specific Republican plank calls for a jet-powered, long-range Air Force, the most effective guided missiles, a modern Navy with a powerful air arm, an Army with unequaled mobility and firepower, and bases "strategically dispersed at home and around the world...
Adlai is tireless while traveling. In Africa last year, he wore out his companions by wading into market places to ogle wares, customs, people. (Once in Malaya, he wrapped his arm around the shoulder of an ancient village chief, cooed: "Hello, Boss. How's the precinct?"). When he campaigns before small groups, Stevenson can be warm and witty. But in preparing a major speech for a major audience, the Stevenson personality abruptly changes...
Breaking the Bandwagon. After a ten-minute arm's length chat with Stevenson in Truman's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite, Harry Truman held a press conference, and let go kersplat with his first great crusher of the week. "I will," he said delightedly, "let the people know for whom I stand before the convention meets." A newsman asked if Truman was just trying to baffle every one. Chortled Harry: "That is exactly right...
After the speech was finished, Sukarno followed up his pointed innuendoes with an equally pointed gesture. When it came time to leave, he strolled off with his arm about Hugh Gumming. (Also present but unembraced: Soviet Ambassador to Indonesia Dmitry Zhukov.) Clearly, Neutralist Sukarno's U.S. tour had been rewarding-not only for him but for the U.S. as well...
...strong-arm handling of Juan Cordova was a measure of the disillusionment Castillo Armas has given his admirers of two years ago. Far from the hoped-for new era of democracy, Guatemala is slipping fast toward a dictatorship that gives reason for opposition from all quarters, then crushes its opponents under the slogan of antiCommunism...