Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathies. But the choice is not between backing the Arab cause, whatever fanatic course it may take, or backing the French, however meanly they behave. It is to seek out and to encourage those in both camps who wish an accommodation fruitful to all. That such forces still exist, after all the violence, is North Africa's one flickering hope...
Churchgoers, in Astute's theology, exist to be pleased. "Let your church officials know where you stand on the points which they now cherish more highly than religious doctrines." Sermons, warns Astute, should always be comforting, never political, and preferably critical only of those "outside the fold...
Though the VIPs get the headlines, the hospitals really exist for the benefit of their workaday patients: servicemen, who pay nothing, and their dependents, who pay $1.75 a day. Between them, the hospitals care for 32,000 bed patients a year-some flown in from ships of the Navy, Army posts and Air Force bases scattered around the world. Each general hospital is the hub of a great medical center, designed for teaching and research as well as patient-care. Walter Reed and Bethesda are constantly and quietly pioneering along many medical lines...
...hospital; another, a onetime gardener, now owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that...
Bulganin spoke last. His tone was relaxed, his attitude realistic, and he avoided phrases such as "It is well known that . . ," "No one can question . . .," "Certain aggressive circles are fomenting . . ." Said Bulganin: "There are urgent issues dividing us ... These difficulties do exist and they are not insignificant. [But] the purpose of this conference is not to indulge in recriminations, but to find ways and means to ease international tension." He began with a show of concessions...