Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walla Walla, Wash. (pop. 26,000), there is a familiar phrase that means bad news: "There's trouble on the hill." The hill is the state penitentiary, and trouble has a long history there. In 1926 some 900 convicts broke out of their cells, and threatened the main gate before they were subdued; in 1934 nine convicts and a guard died in the "Lincoln Day break"; two years ago rioters set a $500,000 fire. Last week trouble came to the hill again...
...liking. By hard work, drive, and an elasticity of approach rather rare in a professional soldier, he has fashioned himself into a highly effective President. His honesty and good will, as well as his strength, are there for all to see. American power and prosperity are a familiar story. But the miracle is within the mind. The giant has lost his jitters...
...Western preparations for Geneva are being coordinated this week among high-level experts of Britain, France and the U.S. meeting in Paris. The Western Three, have already decided to split up the topics of discussion, one apiece. Each nation got a subject with which it is specially familiar, and in which it is specially interested...
European security will be discussed by France's Premier Edgar Faure; it is a subject which invokes France's old familiar fear of German might. France wants East and West to mutually guarantee the territory (and peacefulness) of a united Germany; Molotov has talked in general terms along the same lines. The U.S. is agreeable (though not very hopeful), provided that a united Germany is free to join NATO...
...Overboard. To pave the way. Perón last week employed a familiar technique: lightening ship by throwing overboard once useful cronies.* Out went the two front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church...