Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first word crackled from the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad. The word: an army junta had overthrown the government and set up a three-man "sovereignty council" led by a little-known army general, Abdel Karim Kassem. From the Baghdad Radio, rechristened "Free Iraq Radio," and Nasser'...
When it came to the final huffing and puffing communique on the Tito-Nasser meeting, Cyprus was not mentioned. Tito and Nasser called for a summit conference and an end to nuclear tests (with an unexpected demand in advance that France be forbidden to test atomic weapons in the Sahara...
The situation might suggest the kind of triple schizophrenia recently popularized in The Three Faces of Eve; or in Burgess Meredith's controversial production of Hamlet, in which three persons depicted three facets of Hamlet's personality and spoke now successively, now simultaneously. But Laurents has gone a step further...
In addition, the government should begin an extensive program of construction of fallout shelters. Further, technicians sent by the United States to foreign countries should not live lavishly, but follow Soviet technicians' example of living at a standard equal with that of most native residents.
Yet beyond this point, Hunt declined to draw further comparisons, since the purposes of educational systems in the two countries are so divergent. Committed to molding "willing and unquestioning" servants of a totalitarian state, Soviet schools offer rigidly prescribed courses of study he said, with languages the only elective courses...