Word: foreign
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...Army's General Lucius Clay (see Foreign Relations...
...president and responsible to the parliament (the Bund). The lower house will be the Bundestag, with members elected by the people. The upper house will be the Bundesrat; its members will be elected by the state legislatures. The federal government has legislative power in such fields as foreign affairs and trade, currency, and certain forms of taxation. In other fields the federal and state governments share powers...
...dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from 3,000 busy factories were on proud display. Nothing was spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything Britain produces-from jewelry, and tennis rackets strung with nylon, to men's suits made...
...many a visitor from foreign lands, La Pipelette might seem expendable. The concierge's duty, wrote a German essayist some years ago, is "to open the front door for tenants because they have no keys. Why have they no keys? Because there is a concierge to open the front door...
...Among other Pulitzer Prizewinners in journalism: the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, for public service; the New York Times' s Washington Correspondent C. P. Trussell, for national-affairs reporting; the Baltimore Sun's Price Day, for foreign reporting; the Boston Herald's John H. Crider and the Washington Post's Herbert Elliston, for editorial writing; the Newark Evening News's Lute Pease, for cartooning; the New York Herald Tribune's Nat Fein, for news photography...