Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
While Congress was talking its budget-cutting best, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield rode up to Capitol Hill last week like Wyatt Earp moving in on an edgy town board. Before an economy-tortured House Appropriations .Subcommittee Summerfield sat down and made his peremptory demand: a deficiency appropriation of $47 million to carry on until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Bluntly he threatened to "drastically curtail" post office services unless the committee gave him what he wanted; he invited Congressmen to say "whatever services you would have the American people be denied...
...there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from Europe can always lighten their fears by making good the deficiencies in their own troop commitments to NATO.) In West Germany, which inducted its first 10.000 draftees last week, Konrad Adenauer seized the occasion to demand atomic weapons for his own army (Germany is forbidden to produce its own by treaty...
...Communist King Hussein, 21, failed in a roundabout maneuver to shuffle Red-leaners out of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi's cabinet. Nabulsi, 48, is the Palestinian ex-soap manufacturer who took office after pro-Nasser parties swept last October's parliamentary elections. Nabulsi refused the king's demand for his resignation and instead proclaimed that the Cabinet had voted to establish diplomatic relations with "our loyal friend, the Soviet Union." In a speech at his refugee-crammed home town of Nablus, he defended what he called his "positive neutralism." Said Nabulsi: "We are with the East when...
...approved by the White House, did not seem to please anybody. Disappointed at their failure to get their No. 1 goal-a Montreal-to-Los Angeles route-the Dutch made an unprecedented complaint to Secretary of State Dulles, tartly announced that they will shortly renew this demand. Less than 24 hours after the department's announcement, the Senate also noted its displeasure ; it voted to restrict presidential authority over international airline agreements in protest against the grant. (A similar Senate proposal died in the House last year...