Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STATESMAN & NATION : IT is naive of western politicians and papers to be shocked by the strange statements of Khrushchev and Bulganin in their Eastern tour. Molotov made it only too clear at Geneva that the decision not to threaten the world with war did not include any serious intention to lift the iron curtain. Clearly we must take it for granted that the Russian leaders will follow the usual lines of political warfare and select their facts to suit their audiences. It is conceivable that Mr. Khrushchev did not realize that the British have for at least two generations ceased...
...Missing Billion. King Saud's largesse is the talk of the Eastern world. But because the son of the late great Ibn Saud has never deigned to publish a statement of his revenues and expenditures, nobody knows precisely what use he has made of the underground wealth that Allah bestowed on him. In The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, published last week in Manhattan (Praeger...
Benjamin Shwadran, editor of the scholarly magazine Middle Eastern Affairs, offers the best documented analysis to date of how the government's 50-50 share of oil profits has been lavished on a Saudi Arabian Nights...
...when some towns in eastern New Mexico began to segregate their schools, Milne sought out Negro parents, helped them find homes and jobs in Albuquerque, placed their children in his own nonsegregated schools. Though he also refused to segregate handicapped children ("They used to herd those little dickenses into separate rooms and break their hearts"), he saw to it that his brighter students got all the extra encouragement possible. As a result, Albuquerque has chalked up something of a record in turning out young scientists and mathematicians. The number of high-school students now taking these subjects is more than...
...TRANSPORT ORDERS are still climbing. The latest: Eastern Air Lines for 26 Douglas DC-8s (six with Pratt & Whitney J57 engines the rest with bigger J75s) worth $165 million, for delivery starting in May 1959; Japan Air Lines for four L>C-8s worth $27 million, for delivery m 1960; Continental Air Lines for four Boeing 707s worth $21.3 million, for delivery in May 1959. Orders and options to date: 99 Douglas DC-8s, 60 Boeing 707 jetliners...