Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EUROPE once again is built of blocs. They had never, of course, tumbled down quite so completely as many of the West's optimistic exponents of detente had supposed. Last week, as the U.S. and Soviet Foreign Ministers addressed the United Nations' General Assembly, each enjoined the other not to intrude on his country's sphere of influence. Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed the U.S. resolve to protect West Germany and West Berlin from aggression. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko emphasized the Soviet Union's determination to retain its hold on Eastern Europe and warned...
...past American students have won two kinds of grants--full grants, which cover travel, room and board, and tuition; and travel grants, which are used to supplement grants given by foreign countries. Almost all foreign countries, said Fox, have decided to continue their share of the Fulbright grants. In return the United States will make available a small number of travel grants...
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Humphrey and Nixon have both promised to sell America's crack Phantom bombers to Israel if elected to the White House. The pledge is undoubtedly a good vote-getter, but it is also disastrous foreign policy...
...popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism for driving him into the past tense). No such comparison says anything qualitatively about Bacharach's music, but the hard time I'm having phrasing even an abstract description of it does say more, I think, about the sweep...
...days ago the Vice President, in a discussion on the Middle East, wisely remarked that "arms beget arms." And yet he, like his opponent, still promises to give Israel the Phantom jets, claiming that somehow this will bring peace to the area. But as Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said before the United Nations General Assembly last Tuesday: "There is no such thing as peace by incantation...