Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot of Christmas shopping, the squire of Birch Grove boarded a first-class railway carriage at Haywards Heath station near his home in exurbanite Sussex. Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter-in-law Katie...
...East, where Communism threatens from Korea's 38th Parallel to the Himalayas, the first formal barrier erected against Red encroachment is a half-forgotten organization called the Colombo Plan. Originated in 1950 by a group of British Commonwealth nations meeting in the capital of Ceylon, the plan was designed as a loosely knit club in which industrial nations and needy Asian countries could negotiate bilateral aid agreements. The club has since grown from eleven to 20 members -frankly, if unofficially, referred to as six donors and 14 recipients.* Last week in Bangkok, at the organization's annual Consultative...
...Another barrier, according to Kaysen, is a Russian fear of appearing "soft" towards the West. "The recent Barghoorn arrest and the stopping of U.S. convoys on the Autobahn are two indications of Russian determination to retain an uncompromising image," he said...
...estimate, it should be spending at least one-third more to restore the schools' position of 20 years ago. The key barrier is "municipal overburden"-the expense of such extra city services as subsidized subways. Only 21% of the city budget goes to education, compared with as much as 70% in small communities...
Everywhere, Der Stellvertreter has caused a storm of comment and quarrel. For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix...