Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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So urgent were the portents of the civil war in Lebanon that cries of panic and defeat resounded throughout the West, increased by hints of "volunteers'' from the East. Headlines, further exaggerating newspapers' excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon...
As a further conciliatory gesture, Sir Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was...
The networks blame the setmakers and dealers. "If those manufacturers who complain about our poor programing would sell color sets as energetically as we program color, there would be no problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an...
In his new job, quiet, witty Cardinal Agagianian will give up his patriarchate and replace the brimless stovepipe headgear of a patriarch with a simple biretta. But with his special experience in Russian affairs and in the intricate network of relationships in the Communist-infiltrated Middle East, his new position...
The fact is that Big Steel, which had planned to finance the bulk of its projected $665 million expansion program for 1958 (TIME, March 24) through profits and depreciation charges, has been hit by the profit squeeze and the inadequacies of depreciation allowances. By going into the public market, it...