Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria. Dulles put the current diplomatic point and counterpoint about Syria into proper perspective by recalling Russia's failures in persistent attempts to dominate the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. In 1940 the Communists went after a spheres-of-influence deal with Ally Adolf Hitler that would give them control "in the general direction of the Persian Gulf"; in 1945-46 the Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they...
...long dreamed of a Balkan federation dominated by Tito: his ambitions in this direction were one cause of the 1948 quarrel with Stalin, who never tolerated the notion of "many roads to Socialism." Tito also is a man who talks of the need to break up the rival Eastern and Western blocs, though he makes a good living by playing one off against the other. He thus becomes a potentially useful middleman. In his old worrisome days, he sought the help of capitalistic Greece and Turkey against Moscow. Now Khrushchev would like to revive this moribund Balkan pact, hoping thereby...
Perhaps this was all Khrushchev (or Tito) had in mind at this point, knowing the offer would be rejected. But more intriguing was what the proposal indicated about the Tito-Khrushchev relationship. Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance...
...Hopes Advance Bay, on the eastern shore of the Ungava peninsula, Eaton had helicopters standing by to take the Krupp men on a flying tour over the rocky ridges where Eaton's engineers have blocked out a billion tons of low-grade (35%) ore in one concession, 750 million tons in another. They expected to look over the townsite at Hopes Advance Bay, where Eaton's ambitious blueprinters have planned a concentrating plant to convert the ore to pellets testing 65% iron...
...first time they got their hands on the ball, the Oklahoma Sooners sent Pittsburgh's Panthers sprawling after a perfectly executed quick kick. From then on, starting the 1957 football season against the nation's No. 1 team, the Panthers, rated high among Eastern teams, were outmaneuvered, outrushed. outdefended, outkicked, outpassed...