Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody knows the game better than Vice President Nixon, which is why Nixon's Moscow visit this month will be more than ceremony and a clamor for equal time on Red television. His will be the second most important official voice of the U.S., making it clear behind closed doors that the U.S. does not bluff easily...
Under federal law, a radio or TV station that grants time to a "legally qualified candidate for any public office" has to grant equal time to his rivals. The same ridiculous law, now under attack by Ike as well as radio and TV stations, bars the station from "censorship" of what candidates say. Back in 1956, WDAY in Fargo, N. Dak. granted equal time to A. C. Townley, independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing...
...working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change" about to begin, announced Nasser, the United Arab Republic will double its national income, eliminate strife between classes, provide equal opportunity...
...other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far have scared off the capital that builds factories. Last week, deeply concerned that for the masses his revolution is coming to equal joblessness. Castro announced that during the next six months he will spend $135 million on public works to build roads, parks, bridges, schools and hospitals...
Steel users eagerly snapped up that production as a strike hedge. They had already expanded their inventories from 13 million tons in January to more than 21 million tons, equal to seven weeks' top-level output by the industry. The Big Three automakers have squirreled away sufficient steel to get a good start on production of 1960 models. Among makers of appliances, Westinghouse and General Electric have a 30-60 day supply...