Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Policy: A month ago there were widespread fears that the Republican Administration was leading the U.S. into war over a hunk of rock named Quemoy. As of last week the Administration's Far Eastern stand was by no means considered a political success, but the on-again-off-again cease-fire had brought a general easing of tension...
Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, to a Democratic dinner in Nashville, Tenn.: "I will admit that it is sometimes difficult to discover exactly what [Administration] foreign policy is. When the President says one thing, the Vice President says another and the Secretary of State takes a third course, there is little we can do but wait for Jim Hagerty to correct the record...
...Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, 51, suave, quick-witted ex-FBI man, lawyer and wheelhorse Democrat, have hit nearly all of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
What had gone wrong? Komsomolskaya Pravda blamed it on "a passion for foreign clothes, foreign dances and foreign names," which led to the further deviation of listening to rock 'n' roll and the Voice of America. From such evil habits it was only a step further to hard drinking and absenteeism. Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted with horror a passage from Kostiuk's diary: "I don't understand how one can find any satisfaction in work. Study is also useless." In retrospect, the newspaper blamed the plant collective for failing to apply "corrective measures" in time...
...most fascinating fact about these staggering figures, which were leaked to foreign correspondents, was that they did not appear in the Soviet press. Soviet specialists in Washington think that the targeted growth can be achieved only by a new emphasis on heavy industry, during which the consumer will not get less than he has been getting-he may perhaps get even a little more-but less than he has been promised. They conclude that reasons of international power have prevailed over consumer goods, and Khrushchev believes he can get away with it because the Russian consumer at least has more...