Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goalkeeper. The U.S.'s block-that-tax-boost, hold-those-prices mood went far toward explaining Washington's most remarkable phenomenon of 1959: the triumph of President Eisenhower's balanced-budget goal, despite the spending plans that Democrats brought with them when Congress convened last January. Back then, with Democrats showing the flush of November victory and the economy still showing traces of pallor, some of the President's own advisers warned that a balanced budget would be out of keeping with the trend and temper of the times...
...Threats: Nikita Khrushchev's swaggering promise to "burn" U.S. tanks and launch rockets if the U.S. supports its position in Berlin-threats transmitted through Democrat Averell Harriman (TIME, July 13)-brought a scornful rejoinder: "I don't believe that responsible people should indulge in anything that can be even remotely considered ultimatums or threats. That is not the way to reach peaceful solutions." And to Khrushchev's suggestion that he might come to the U.S. to talk things over with Ike, the answer was an ambiguous maybe: "I would never rule [it] out of the realm...
...people all facing outwards, like the bull moose protecting the herd from the foraging wolves. At other times actors turned fully around for no better reason than that they were about to make an important speech. Another problem with the four sided arena stage is that the audience is brought not only physically but also emotionally very near to the characters. This is well and good when the desired effect is close identification with one or two characters, but when there are a large number of almost equally important people moving around the effect is divisive. It is perhaps significant...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Drama set in the prizefight ring, with Rory Calhoun as a manager betrayed by the protégé he brought to the big time...