Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become global in scope, might as well
Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government, will discuss large-scale defense tonight at the Geographical Institute. The title of his 8 o'clock speech will be "Global Defense Requirements--Massive Retaliation and Brushfire wars...
...compared with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices, factory workers' average real wages actually shrank by nearly 1% from August 1956 to August 1957 despite an increase of $2 a week in take-home pay. And the U.S. inflation record, measured against the global scale (see chart), was moderate indeed...
...Little Picture." Murrow's zest for chasing fire engines on a global scale sometimes forces him to commute across oceans to keep his weekly date on Person to Person. By the time the show's technicians have torn their five tons of equipment out of a visited celebrity's home, Murrow may be on a plane to Washington to lay the groundwork for a new See It Now or closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting...
...show both the talent and the will for business enterprise. As such, he not only organized a $120 billion-a-year retail trade (200 million customers) and a $6.2 billion-a-year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay...