Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile-base plan but on the possibility of new talks with Russia. In Britain even the Times of London, voice of the established order, endorsed the idea of negotiations to determine "whether there cannot be some limited agreement affecting the type of arms to be stationed in Central Europe," and the conservative Economist followed suit...
...calculated teaser: a proposal that both East Germany and West Germany ban the production and stockpiling of atomic weapons in their territories. If the two Germanys would agree to this, said Bulganin, Poland and Czechoslovakia would also adhere to the ban. A de-atomized zone would be created across Central Europe; tensions might be reduced...
Laos. The Communist Pathet Lao, controlling two of the twelve provinces, has joined the central government, whose authority is thereby extended to all of the little jungle kingdom (pop. 1,400,000 to 2,500,000). Though not seriously alarmed as yet, U.S. officials watch anxiously as Communist troops take their place in the royal army, and a Communist Minister of Planning helps decide how U.S. funds ($43 million this year) are to be spent...
...long been conducting their own barter trade direct with foreign countries. The military commanders have been levying their own taxes, building their own roads and schools for nearly two years. In Singapore the colonels dealt through a foreign trade mission they had appointed themselves, over the head of the central government in Djakarta...
...Real Womanliness." What Maria does give, according to Director Brooks, is something new to U.S. show business. Instead of North American sex, Maria has Central European Seele, which Brooks defines as a sort of spiritual dreaminess, interfused with girlish innocence and a tender maternal quality. They all add up to "real womanliness." Says Brooks: "Here for the first time on the screen the American man will see a woman who really understands him, who can give herself as American women have never learned to. This is the woman that American women long to be, and that American men are looking...