Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans. One would think that 45 million Arabs cower under the truculence of 1.5 million Jews, who, for some unknown reason, wish to beat the Middle East to its knees. If TIME is anti-Israel, let it say so openly. This intellectual pussyfooting is not what I would call courageous journalism...
...Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a bigger piece of a limited pie. It took up the cudgels for the "have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives a new meaning of Government's role in the 20th century breakthrough of U.S. capitalism. With no breast-beating the Economic Report accepts Government responsibility for correcting unemployment, raising farm prices, reducing...
Georgia's Griffin, most militant among the four, wanted to use stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy...
...Triomphe, and ex-Prizefighter Georges Carpentier ran the bar downstairs. Then there were fewer than 15 NATO divisions, only one of them combat ready; the rest were largely split up into occupation units. Then there was no plan, and no communications to set it in motion. A phone call to Oslo took twelve hours, and passed through the Soviet zone of Germany. All that stood between the Russians and the English Channel, as one officer put it, "was a group of committees...
Today Gruenther proclaims proudly: "Our resources are from four to five times what they were in those dark days of 1951." There is a plan, and "each unit knows what to do." The call to Oslo takes three minutes and goes direct. NATO has spent $1.9 billion building miles of road, miles of pipelines, supply depots and bases. Greece, Turkey and West Germany have joined NATO's ranks. Gruenther even makes a virtue out of his frustrations, pointing out the democratic problems in allocating costs for such things as airfields. "What should Norway pay for an airfield in Turkey...