Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Silences. And what of Nasser? He had the Russian bear by the tail. Last week in Damascus, top Communist Bakdash openly defied President Nasser's ban on party agitation. "Give us back our democratic freedoms," he demanded in the newspaper Al Akhbar: ". . . the right of the popular masses and other national forces to organize themselves politically in full freedom." Communist students clashed with Syrian nationalists in Damascus and Aleppo...
...Cadillac sped through back streets and made it safely to the former Royal Palace, which now houses the Sovereignty Council. As protocol demanded. Rountree signed the official visitor's book, but then both Americans made the error of lingering for a half-hour of coffee drinking and talk with junior officials. It was enough time for the mob leaders to shunt their hoodlums across town by truck. As Rountree and Fritzlan left the palace, their car was nearly overwhelmed...
...pulled off. Again the car sliced through the crowd, was nearly cut off by a herd of cattle but, after colliding heavily with a cow, slipped past. All along the route to the embassy it was met by a barrage of mud, stones and assorted filth. Further back waved crudely lettered signs: "Go home, little dog Rountree." "Rontry, do not step on our beloved land with your bloody feet!" Waiting at the embassy gate was a truckload of mobsters chanting, "Go home, Rountree ... Go home, Rountree...
...little left in gold reserves ($57 million) that it cannot even scrape up enough money to pay for the crude petroleum it needs each year. Desperate for hard currency, and shocked by the size of the sums involved, Franco decided to get the fugitive capital back, no matter who might get hurt in the process...
...Back in Manhattan after finishing her first film role in two years (as a hip-rolling cutie in Director Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), distraught Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe rested in seclusion from a bitter blow: only 16½ months after doctors had removed an embryo by surgery to save her life (TIME. Aug. 12, 1957). a miscarriage had, after some three months, ended her latest try for motherhood...