Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
...Soviets, other Arab nations will get the jitters at the prospect of seeing the Russians with an established base of operations in the heart of the Middle East. Even Egypt's Nasser, who has put his head farther into the Soviet noose than any other Arab leader except Hourani & Co., is obviously apprehensive...
Action & Reaction. Military moves, except in direct response to military moves by the Soviet-armed Syrians, were less likely than an economic and political quarantining of Syria. But Syria's own trumps are also economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...
...lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend. But all of a sudden, on a lodge night, I realize I haven't been home with...
...mixed blessings the U.S. conferred on conquered Japan was the abrupt introduction of equal rights for women. Japanese women now have the right to vote, the right to sue for divorce (some 10,000 exercise it annually), and Japanese wives-except in the most backward rural areas-no longer must dutifully walk ten paces behind their husbands...