Word: behinders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mandate. Before Khrushchev left, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence reminded him at a dinner that both parties stand firmly behind President Eisenhower. From Khrushchev came a response that made it clear that he was growing alert to U.S. nuances. Said he: "I want to interpret your words [not as a threat but] as a mandate of your confidence and your love to the President, and for that I take heart . . . Our Soviet government has the support of the people. Before I left, the same thing was said to me: 'Khrushchev, go to America, strive for peace...
...political group, the Rassemblement pour I'Algèrie Française, intent on narrowing the alternatives offered by De Gaulle to one: complete "Francization" of Algeria. But on a tour through northern France last week, it was evident that Charles de Gaulle had France's masses behind him. In town after town, workers and farmers cheered as the general ringingly declared: "I am sure the French people have approved the determination to solve the Algerian problem by the heart, the soul and free vote of the inhabitants...
...Cairo, where Nasser's propagandists worked day and night defaming Kassem, Moslem divines solemnly denounced the Iraqi Premier, and a procession of thousands of students and workers trooped behind a symbolic coffin mourning "the martyrs of Arabism who fell dead from bullets of treacherous, criminal Kassem." In Jordan, where young King Hussein has been half-reconciled to Nasser by Kassem's involvement with the Communists, the state radio broadcast an appeal to all Arabs to "protect Iraq from Communist gangs." Even some erstwhile Kassem defenders turned hostile: in Lebanon a crowd of 3,000 battled police...
...Behind the lower U.S. price of a can of drip grind or a jar of instant lies a revolutionary new Brazilian coffee policy. For years Brazil operated as though it grew all the coffee in the world, refused to sell for less than its own pegged price, watched its markets and export income dwindle. Last year Brazil pulled out the peg, let prices seek their level, began selling hard. By August, coffee sales were setting records, and by last week the first two major effects could be plainly measured...
...with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...