Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much could not be said for the political front. In the delicately balanced half-Christian, half-Moslem Arab nation, the Moslems began to solidify their opposition to Maronite Christian President Chamoun. Adel Osseyran, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, protested to the U.N. against Chamoun's failure to consult Deputies before calling for U.S. help. One pro-Western Deputy said that 40 of the 66 members of parliament were opposed to the U.S. landing. Chamoun's opponents threatened to boycott the parliamentary election of his successor, scheduled for this week...
...left, he thoughtfully put aside funds-things are like that in Thailand-for Berrigan to keep going until he could scrape together enough money to buy control of the World for himself. Today Berrigan is such a national institution that diplomats phone him openly for guidance, and Thai officials consult him on politics- foreign and domestic. What is more, by his wit and wits, Editor Berrigan has turned his World into one of the genuinely cultured pearls of the East...
...Gaulle's return to power (45 rebels killed, 64 captured) made it plain that the Algerian revolt was by no means ended. And on De Gaulle's other flank-the right one-the balcony generals of the French army were applying unrelenting pressure. Without bothering to consult De Gaulle, military authorities in France last week seized issues of two of the Parisian papers most frequently suppressed under the Fourth Republic-France-Observateur and L'Express...
President Eisenhower got his first chance last week to mend some of the damage done to U.S.-Latin American relations by the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon. In a letter to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, Ike suggested "that our two governments should consult together as soon as possible with a view to approaching other members of the Pan-American community, and starting promptly on measures that would produce throughout the continent a reaffirmation of devotion to Pan-Americanism and better planning in promoting the common interests of our several countries...
...another column, she disparaged the fears of the fainthearted that the decline in automobile sales meant a shrinkage in the U.S. middle-income market. Plowing through Department of Commerce statistics that few businessmen consult, she showed that the proportion of middle-income families has risen from 37% in 1947 to 43% in 1957. "What does it all mean? It means that one of the greatest economic social revolutions of all time-the surging growth in America of a mass middle-income class-is still going on. It means that industry should be placing more, not less, stress on the middle...