Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will be placed upon any auction block." Then the President, a modest man whose strength lies in the fact that he is not enigmatic but is widely and deeply understood, set forth the face of the future as the U.S. sees it. "Fellow Americans," the President said, "we venerate more widely than any other document, except only the Bible, the American Declaration of Independence. It stands enshrined today as a charter of human liberty and dignity. Until these things belong to every living person, their pursuit...
From Addis Ababa last week, TIME Correspondent James Bell cabled: "His face as sadly impassive as that of a Byzantine saint. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I rose from a straight-back chair in his paneled library as I bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign...
Last week Ben Barka's enemies, hoping to stop him in his tracks, said he had gone too far and would threaten the existence of Morocco's monarchy. Whether or not King Mohammed took these charges at face value no one knew, but fact was that no sooner had Ben Barka proclaimed his National Union than the palace took away the official car and offices that he had been enjoying as president of Morocco's impotent Consultative Assembly...
...long as King Mohammed survives, Ben Barka and his National Union are unlikely to challenge the palace directly. But should young Moulay Hassan succeed to the throne, or should he use the army .to make trouble for Ben Barka, Morocco's absolute monarchy would be pitted face to face with Morocco's most adroit and formidable political organizer...
...face in the portrait was clearly Fidel Castro's, but the pose was a new one. A halo circled the dark curls, the lips were parted as though in prayer, the eyes were cast to heaven, the brow furrowed under a burden of sorrows. Inevitably it called to mind the picture of Jesus Christ that hangs above the bed in all proper Latin American bedrooms. Just so that no one would miss the point, Cuba's weekly magazine Bohemia, where the picture appeared, added a block of explanatory text: "This is not the Fidel that the barbudos know...