Word: buildings
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...manager of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel and an average family in Washington. A U.S. reporter wondered whether the visitors might explore some of the less attractive aspects of life in America. "That's not our plan," replied a Chinese television producer. "Our purpose is to help build friendship between our two peoples." So, instead of accustomed adjectives like "decadent" and "bourgeois," China's press was studded with "fantastics" and "beautifuls...
...left a bit less than $9,000 in trust for 200 years to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia; he directed that it be loaned to "young married artisans" who had finished apprenticeships and were setting up their own businesses. Interest on the loans, he predicted would build up the funds to $18 million...
...participation in the assembly as one of the key ideas in its platform. Although Winthrop said he will not run for re-election because he hopes to become a model for non-member activism, it remains to be seen whether the assembly can generate enough widespread student support to build on its recent initiative...
...unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran, Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the chief of the Agency, sent a secret memo to President Truman on June 27, 1950. Hillenkoetter warned Truman that although the USSR would not attack Iran directly it would intensify its efforts "to build up subversive forces within Iran and...weaken the country by means of propaganda, border activities and diplomatic pressure." For the moment, however, the CIA was not unduly alarmed because the newly appointed government of General Ali Raumara maintained firm support for the United States...
Back in Washington panic began to build and the CIA produced on March 16. 1951 a secret analysis of the situation for Truman and his top officials called "The Current Crisis in Iran." The report noted increased turmoil in the country, the amount of support for the nationalization of the oil industry and the danger of the British worsening the situation by an "unyielding attitude." Yet the special estimate concluded confidently (and Truman marked this in the margin) that "We do not believe...the situation is such that there is imminent danger of the government's losing control, barring armed...