Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point V. In the current year U.S. travel has skyrocketed as never before, increasing by an estimated $200 million in just twelve months. Reed calls such spending abroad the new Point V, "the economic power of the American people directed to overseas nations through tourism." He estimates that U.S. travelers...
Died. Demetrios Maximos, 82, Premier of Greece in 1947, head of a coalition cabinet directed against the Communist guerrillas; in Athens.
For the most part, this anthology of "Americas second most popular after-dark activity" consists of short classics-from Stephen Crane's A Poker Game to John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin...
Behind shuttered windows in a villa outside Athens, doctors fought for the future of Greece. Tuberculosis, contracted in Nazi concentration camps, had finally struck down aging (71) Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. For months the news was played down while the ailing Premier directed affairs of state through deputies. The resolute...
In Saigon there was little doubt about the outcome of the referendum. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai lives near Cannes on the French Riviera with his family and various European mistresses. From there, often with French concurrence, he has done everything he could do to subvert and destroy the struggling government...