Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject to little force that will make them keep to their platform pledges. If the CCA would make a strong endeavor to find highly educated administrators to run for city council or school committee, and provide these men with a strong platform which they are bound to follow, the CCA would be the salvation of Cambridge...
Despite the comment and lack of comment, the fact remains that Russia has done something that looks pretty impresive to the average man. A 180 pound ball is a small one, no doubt about that, but what will follow this? A 1,800 pound ball, then a 18,000 pound ball. When the satellites get that big it seems that the Russians might want to put little men in them and give the little men big guns...
...fight against inflation, said the President, governments must curb their own demands upon the economy - "a difficult task in this day of heavy defense outlays" - and follow credit policies that promote stability. But government measures alone cannot win the fight unless nations avoid "the costly error of overpaying ourselves for the work we do." Payments for "productive efforts of all sorts," i.e., profits as well as wages, should rise in step with productivity, not outrun it. Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government...
...that all of Eastern Europe is in ferment, and that anything any Western nation can do to help break the Soviet grip would help, the old Chancellor set out with realistic caution. He wanted more trade with Poland, hoping that from this mutually advantageous first step diplomatic relations might follow. As a beginning, he would like to send a trade mission to Warsaw headed not by a trader but by a political figure...
...days of accepting the court's jurisdiction. For whatever consolation it might be to those two much-criticized colonial powers, Britain and France, they found themselves being praised by India for their magnanimity and good sense in getting out of India, an example Portugal was urged to follow. "It has been suggested, and is still being suggested," India's Attorney General told the World Court judges, "that militarily the Portuguese colonies in India could become part of India in less than two days." Of course, he added quickly, "we do not wish to seek a solution that...