Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some of these epithets may be, dynamic Jacques Soustelle today at 47 has more political potential than any other Frenchman save Charles de Gaulle. It is a potential respectfully conceded even by many who fear...
...most of all, foreign oil companies were doubtful that oil could be got out through war-torn Algeria. The F.L.N. rebels, insisting that the French Sahara is an inseparable part of Algeria (although most Algerian Moslems fear the Sahara and have traditionally avoided it), swore to destroy any oil the French tried to move out of the desert, proclaimed that the rebel government would automatically consider void any Sahara concessions that foreign oil companies negotiated with the French government...
...leaders the Soviet people have ever produced. But if he diverts the resources and talents of his people to the objective of promoting the communization of countries outside the Soviet Union, he will only assure that both he and his people will continue to live in an era of fear, suspicion and tension...
Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that things had got out of hand, Nehru still hoped to persuade Namboodiripad to resign in peace. Namboodiripad himself talked as if he wanted to-but was talked out of it by higher Red authority...
Apples & Pears. Rarely has good news been presented with more furrowed brows. Big Steel's Blough astutely cautioned that high second-quarter earnings reflected "an unusually high demand artificially stimulated by our customers' fear of a steel strike." Comparing current earnings with profits in recession 1958, said Bethlehem's Homer, was comparing "apples and pears." Republic's White called his company's second-quarter record "to a major degree a result of robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize...