Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Sumatran capital of Padang. The conferences began some three weeks ago in deepest secrecy. Summoned by shrewd, stocky Colonel Maludin Simbolon, the dissident commanders flew in from the Celebes and South Sumatra. The officers are mostly young colonels, and all are anti-Communists who run their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption. Soon the colonels were joined, uninvited, by some of Indonesia's top anti-Communist politicians. Among them: Masjumi Party Chairman Mohammed Natsir; Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, governor of the Bank of Indonesia; ex-Premier Burhanuddin Harahap; onetime Finance Minister Sumitro Djojohadikusumo...
...hopes of winning the votes of commuters, mostly presumed to be Republican. Furthermore, both states are pressed for cash and would like to get some of the money going to New York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into account every individual's situation." To study the situation further, the governors set up a tristate committee...
...letter to the HYRC Wang commented, "The Penn meeting was also a success in spite of the number of eggs wasted by some foolish undergraduates." He also received cool reception in his other Ivy League appearances at Columbia and Dartmouth...
...spring's great cut-that-budget fracas, an economy-minded member of Congress might well wonder whether it was just a dream. Despite all the battle cries that rang out on Capitol Hill, despite all the warlike swings of economy axes, that same federal budget now looms a cool billion bigger than President Eisenhower's year-ago estimate of $71.8 billion...
Help in Sight. Because Soviet-bloc trade with Latin America is still small ($220 million last year) and the trade offensive is still more promise than deed, Washington is keeping cool-but thinking hard about the future. U.S. officials still argue that direct loans to state oil monopolies would be an invitation for other governments to expropriate' U.S.-owned oil companies all over the world. "I am convinced of the advantages of free, competitive enterprise in the oil business," explains a high presidential adviser. "But when my judgment is asked in Washington, I shall say that I believe...