Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's diplomatic move was a letter from the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin, received just before the NATO meeting last month, renewing Communist propaganda demands for a parley at the summit. "I am ready," wrote Dwight Eisenhower this week, "to meet with the Soviet leaders. [But] these complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by foreign ministers." This is necessary, the President emphasized, to ensure that a summit parley might, "in fact, hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world...
Technical Assistance. In the fleshpot city of Havana, where gambling has always been one of the more reputable vices, a few casinos were prospering moderately in the early 1950s. Then some U.S. thugs introduced an eight-dice game called razzle-dazzle, so complex that most suckers never even learned the rules before they were fleeced. As resentment over this form of larceny spread among U.S. tourists, President Fulgencio Batista grew worried. In 1955 he decided to look around for U.S. technical assistance. The man who popped up was Meyer Lansky...
...small museum, only to be turned down by Railway Express for lack of the physician's death certificate that would have qualified him for the burial permit. When Dr. Cooney made known his quandary, he had no trouble hitting Page One. Last week, over-cutely swathed as The Complex Mummy Complex, Dr. Cooney's story got into TV as the Armstrong Theater's first comic dramatization-from-life. Stretched far too thin in an hourlong script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life...
...pulled out his pipe and mentioned the theologian as he struck a match. "Fabulous, isn't he? Depth psychology, symbolic meaning, Hegelian dialectic, expressionist art, existentialism, and all twentieth-century: complex, bold, systematic...Everything...
Since Adlai Stevenson's bid for the Presidency in 1952, California (Big "D") Democracy has undergone a complex devolution back to the little man. The West's multiplying middle class and mushroom unionism suddenly discovered a stake in the political nation. People too busy, too old, or too worried to pay more than breakfast table attention to affairs of state began to meet on Friday nights in a neighbor's home; they gathered into organizations throughout the Golden State, invited speakers and began to read the Congressional Record...