Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the winners have been chosen through aptitude tests and personal biographies, each boy or girl will be free to attend any accredited college in the United States for a full four years and to pursue whatever course of study interests him. The amount of his scholarship will depend on his need and on how much he can earn with term-time work...
...gain. But the Moscow meeting was not the kind that produces the means of any immediate measurement. An exchange of diplomatic relations represents in itself just a bit of plumbing, its value to be determined by what flows through it. The effect of the prisoners' release will depend first on whether they get home, and perhaps to a great extent on the stories they tell of others who died or remain behind. The conference's meaning to battle over reunification can perhaps begin to be measured next month at the Geneva conference of foreign ministers of the four...
Grubstake. The French stake in North Africa is prodigious. With its empire in Asia gone, the loss of its African colonies could seal the doom of French claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...
...Westinghouse International's Sales Manager Jose de Cubas, it also crashed the Geneva market with a sales technique that staggered European buyers. At the trade fair, Westinghouse had a small booth with a working model of its Shippingport reactor, but it had long since decided not to depend entirely on mechanical exhibits. Instead, the company took over the entire first floor of the fashionable Genevoise restaurant for the duration of the conference, so industrialists, scientists and newsmen could talk things over and enjoy the free drinks, snacks and cigars. One night the supersalesmen chartered a Lake Geneva steamer, took...
...West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers, he said almost contemptuously, but not for strong nations like Russia. The Soviet Union could not depend on the guarantees of others...