Word: eastern
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...early as 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on Nov. 2, there will be signs, for those who know how to read them, pointing the way in which the election is going. At about that hour, returns recognized as indicators will cause professional politicians across the land to reach for their pencils and recheck their hunches...
Dislike in New Delhi. Instead of lamenting the end of his 16-year career as a Russian expert, Henderson soon became an authority on the Arab world. He returned to Washington in 1945 to head the office of Near Eastern and African Affairs. When the British Cabinet decided to pull out of Greece, Henderson went to work immediately with his staff and, in a round-the-clock weekend, drafted a plan of aid to Greece and Turkey which emerged as the Truman Doctrine...
ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
While Saltonstall's voting record is not as good, he has served the Administration well in its battles with Republican isolationists of the inland states. On the whole, however, he has followed the Eastern Republican policy of talking internationalism while at the same time making cuts in foreign aid programs. Unlike Furcolo, he has followed projectionist principles in voting for import restrictions. Also, he has never supported extensive social and welfare legislation. In the last Congress, he voted to give the tidelands oil to the states, although Massachusetts would have benefited had the land remained under federal jurisdiction. Saltonstall also...
Orville Tice, star Crimson tackle, was named one of the top linemen of the week in the fifth weekly "Unsung Hero" list of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association. He was one of 12 college stars to be so honored...