Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Labor. In Marxist fashion, Touré has clamped tight central controls on everything in sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that...
...also born and bred in Milwaukee; Aloysius Joseph Muench, 70, the first U.S. citizen to be an accredited diplomatic representative of the Vatican. Pope Pius XII made him apostolic visitor to Germany in 1946, raised him to archbishop in 1950 and apostolic nuncio in 1951. As the first foreign diplomat to present his credentials to the German Federal Republic in 1951, stocky, grey-haired Archbishop Muench became dean of the Bonn diplomatic corps. His easy charity and folksy Midwestern humor have made him popular. Once when Chancellor Adenauer admired a purple cape he was wearing, Muench said...
...foreign students from 53 countries, most of them technology-starved lands, the Palace of Science is a cathedral of know-how. Few worship harder than 400 Chinese students, the biggest foreign group. They keep to themselves, deplore pleasure of any kind. One Chinese student made the mistake of skipping lunches and saving enough money for a radio. When his comrades got the word, he was severely reprimanded, told that all savings should go to "national welfare." He promptly sold his little radio and sent the money to Peking...
...Pravda has come to print an occasional dissident word. Last week it not only published the text of U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...Menzies government wooed both domestic and foreign capital with tax concessions. Overseas capital was lured with such attractions as no capital gains tax, guarantees of repatriation of profits and assurances that the capital itself could be repatriated. Some critics argued that the breaks were too big. Menzies' answer is that the benign investment climate has encouraged so many businessmen to reinvest that 25% of Australia's national income is plowed right back into new expansion...