Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fool the Arabs, while calming Israeli fears. It is unlikely, however, that the guise will be any more effective than Russia's use of Czech arms. Worse, this attempt to use the French as a decoy represents not only diplomatic ineptitude, but moral cowardice. If we are unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence is most unwilling to make the shipment, in spite of American pressure. Thus, by urging...
Despite yesterday's medical announcement that President Eisenhower is physically fit for a second term in the White House, most members of the University's Government department contacted last night refused to commit themselves on the possibility of his running for reelection...
Development of characters, by tracing their psychological and environmental background, seems to be director John Huston's central aim. The Asphalt Jungle, like its descendants, has no intricate plot. The emphasis must fall on the characters' past and how they react to the strain of the monumental crime they commit. Huston succeeds with some of his players and fails with others. The realism he tries to create is ofen shattered by weak dialogue and an implausible story. He has not mastered startling photographic technique. When these attempts at effect fail to divert attention from the stupid, simple plot, the suspense...
...Stragglers. The whole idea of "extending prosperity" to the farm, i.e., taking quick, corrective action to get all the good graph lines rising together-epitomizes Government's new role in the expanding economy. Harry Truman's Agriculture Department rushed to defend the farmer, was willing to commit him to eternal Government control in protecting farm income. Eisenhower, as the report shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph lines with...
...Total cost will be $1.3 billion. Egypt will pay about $900 million. The World Bank will probably put up some $200 million, most of which it will try to pass along to private capital. But the bank cannot commit this kind of money unless it is sure that the U.S. (plus Britain) will put up the remainder and stick with the project until the dam is completed...