Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerly awaited in Washington - partly for the effect it could have on the Senate vote. That vote has not yet been taken, but the story's principals - Secretary Strauss and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson - agree, from their widely differing points of view, the story was fair, and squared with the issues...
...aroused peasants had made their point. The Italian government promised to buy $160,000 worth of potatoes at fair prices, and the Naples city government offered to let the farmers peddle their crops on the city streets without paying vendors' taxes...
...Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit ended last week, there was little joy or tenderness left in Lisbon. "Everything the British embassy has done," snorted 0 Século, "has been as if Portugal were...
...rumor spread that the princess herself had ordered the blackout in retaliation for the mob scene at the airport ("And that is not far from the truth," admitted an embassy official in private). The dismal climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards. Two days later the British embassy...
...week's end, as Margaret winged her way back home, a Lisbon editor irately complained that the fair was nothing but ''a party given by the British for the British in a conquered land." The West Germans, who have no monarchy, hope to open a Lisbon fair of their own some time...