Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, the turnabout made good sense, and it helped revive the President's prestige when it was sinking fast. There was still confusion on details and next steps, but it was the healthy kind of confusion that comes from bustling activity, and infinitely better than the everything's-all-right serenity that had for too long confused the nation and the free world...
...Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was trumpeting economy only last summer, was now moving full speed ahead on plans to investigate the Administration's defense program. Some hysterical pundits were suggesting a negotiated peace with the Russians "before it is too late." It was time for Ike to move fast...
...public was no surprise to U.S. scientists. From keeping an eye on Russian research through scientific journals, from reports of colleagues who visited Russia, and from meeting their Russian opposite numbers at international scientific gatherings, U.S. scientists were well aware that Russia's scientific venture was accelerating fast...
...successor. Last week from the presidential mansion, Los Pinos, the word was out: Ruiz Cortines' blessing went to his hardworking Labor Minister, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 47, a moderate leftist who could be counted on to push ahead with Mexico's maturing democracy and its fast-developing free economy...
...classes of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil live worse than they did ten years ago. And of all the nations of the world, they are among the least able to afford economic setbacks. Reason: their populations increase 2 14% annually, twice the world average; they must run twice as fast just to stand still...