Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British-U.S. friendship rests on more than a community of language and a similarity of power interests. Its main base is a shared belief in the pursuit of justice-everywhere. The occasion of Eden's visit is a time to remember how much idealism has influenced the course of British policy even in the Empire's supposedly cynical past, and how fleeting and superficial was the isolationist phase of U.S. history...
...that neutral nations have received one-twelfth as much monetary aid per capita as those countries which have signed military agreements with the U.S. That didn't seem to be what Pakistanis wanted to hear at all. "Americans have to be more emphatic in the expression of their friendship," replied a government spokesman...
Guiding spirit of the top-level, nine-man citizens' committee that put together the report was New Mexico Publisher (the Santa Fe New Mexican) Robert M. Mc-Kinney, 45, who was tapped for the job because of his longtime friendship with Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Committee chairman. A corporation director (Rock Island Railroad, International Telephone & Telegraph) and cattle breeder (Aberdeen Angus) but no scientist, Bob McKinney set his task forces to work ten months ago, organized 15 discussion groups of specialists, launched 50 special studies, interviewed 327 top experts in science, industry, agriculture, medicine...
From Washington the television scene shifted to Chicago, where 10,000 candles, symbolic of friendship toward Ike, glowed in the darkness, and Fred Waring's choristers sang, "Thanks, Mr. President, we honor you tonight . . ." Ike, chin in hand, peered intently; Mamie hunched forward in her seat for a better look. A few feet away Television Adviser Robert Montgomery murmured to himself: "Great picture, great picture...
...real hope for the future of Saudi Arabia is that the former strong friendship and admiration for America, now strained and wearing thin because of unwise American policy in the area, may be restored, and the promising partnership of a few years ago revived...