Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally issued, the President's directive had a desperate tone about it, with its "buy American" restrictions running counter to the longstanding Administration goal of freer world trade. The pinchy, protectionist mood of the directive made it plain that the balance-of-payments deficit is one of the gravest problems facing the U.S. and its new President. It would be a body blow to the free world if the U.S. tried to solve the problem by slashing foreign aid or by retreating to protectionism after a decade of heartening progress toward freer trade. To avoid those paths...
...which the U.S. would stand little chance of victory. Is the United States waiting to suffer ignominy when forced by an unfriendly nation to back down? Is it waiting to be accused of belligerence by refusing to leave when the request is made? Or is it hoping that counter-revolutionary forces will overthrow Castro before he has a chance to ask the U.S. to withdraw...
Perhaps the base is even intended for use in cooperation with a counter-revolutionary movement. This, in fact, seems the only possible reason to remain, and it is a reason which all of Latin America would construe as rabidly imperialistic. But all other excuses for staying in Guantanamo are derisible. As pleasant as the base may be for a training ground and weekend spot, there are others. Furthermore, without full-fledged assistance from outside the island, the base cannot possibly serve as a deterrent to Cuban aggression towards other nations, as President Eisenhower maintains. Cuba could too easily destroy Guantanamo...
...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
...journeyed to India and Japan last year to investigate the yogi's. He came back with a cargo of provocative conclusions that are causing controversy in Britain around his new book, The Lotus and the Robot, to be published in the U.S. next spring. His main conclusion runs counter to longstanding, if vague, Western intellectual belief in the East's great spiritual superiority. Says Koestler: "To look at Asia for mystic enlightenment and spiritual guidance has become as much an anachronism as to think of America as the Wild West...