Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spread out across the eastern shore of the Mediterranean this week was the greatest concentration of U.S. armed might ever assembled in peacetime. In a historic show of land, sea and air power, the U.S. had moved swiftly to answer the cries for help from the friendly government of a small nation-Lebanon-that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat...
...what the U.S. did next. The troop movements were final proof that the U.S. was thoroughly committed to the Mediterranean. The long-range value of the whole effort could well be that, as a probing operation, it would enable the U.S. to decide quickly and precisely what its Middle Eastern objectives are and act accordingly...
Yarborough's campaign kitty. Blakley charged, is being fed by Eastern organized labor. He dared Liberal Yarborough, who straddles the race issue, to get off the fence. "I challenge him," said Blakley in a resonant drawl, "to deny that funds for his past and present campaigns come from the same source as the funds which financed the attack on our public school system by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Sunday, Dr. N. Glatzer, Professor of Jewish History and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, will lead a discussion in Hebrew at Hillel House...
...Jersey, nine eastern rail lines, including the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, urged Governor Robert Meyner to postpone their $18.5 million tax bill for 1958 to ease their "insurmountable burdens...