Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invasion of South Korea that year forced an abrupt about-face in U.S. policy. Aid and arms were poured into the beleaguered island so that it might withstand invasion, rebuild and modernize its economy, develop foreign trade. The U.S. has since funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to Chiang's government in Taipei, plus some $1.5 billion in economic assistance. A land-reform program has more than doubled farm productivity, while more and more of the nation's resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan...
...American Conservative Union sets itself a proselytizing mission, to develop and articulate the conservative position on major issues. William Buckley, John Chamberlain, Lewis Strauss and Arthur Radford are among the leading members. It resembles the new Goldwater group. But A.C.U. Chairman Donald Bruce says: "We're not being swallowed by anybody...
...thousands of heart-disease patients in the past few years, interference and fatigue are proving to be troublesome. Difficulties may show up when the patient is still on the operating table, while the pacemaker is being inserted in a pocket of chest or abdominal muscle, or they may develop years later...
...power back at the home office. For this reason-and for a lot of others-U.S. companies are increasingly turning over control of their foreign outposts to European-bred local managers. Says Arthur K. Watson, chairman of IBM's international subsidiary: "It is far easier to develop company spirit in a European than it is for an American to develop an understanding of a foreign country's history, culture and customs - to say nothing of its language...
...keep their lucrative 70% share of the free world's $2 billion-a-year market in aerospace exports. General Electric unveiled a full-size mock-up of the engine with which it proposes to power an American supersonic transport, even though the U.S. has not formally decided to develop one. Lockheed showed its experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed off combat aircraft that ranged from McDonnell...