Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles met for 90 minutes with Charles de Gaulle. The premier did most of the talking. Demanding a greater voice for France, De Gaulle declared that the West is "at war" with the "Russo-Sino bloc" on a global scale, and that the Big Three must have "organic consultation." De Gaulle asked why the U.S. had failed to support France in the U.N. vote on Algeria, which the French (and the French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani...
...invariably blames it on the local food and water, which he suspects of harboring amoebae or other low and exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration and even prove fatal), tourists' diarrhea has had little scientific study seeking its causes and cures...
...third function of a newsmagazine is to get read. As every reader knows, TIME circulates in almost every country in the world. Reader Martin L. Bartling Jr., a Knoxville (Tenn.) housebuilder, had this global fact impressed on him in a way that astounded him-as well as the Knoxville post office. Bartling is the builder of the $13,500 model home, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, that TIME told about in BUSINESS in the Oct. 27 issue. Hardly had the magazine reached subscribers when the mail began to pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands...
NATO chief Paul-Henri Spaak called yesterday for a union of all the forces of the West to win the global struggle with Communism...
...three-time Governor (1939-45) and Harry Truman's Ambassador to Peru (1946-48), poured it on incumbent U.S. Senator Albert Gore. "He is drawing $75 a day to represent the people of Tennessee," bellowed Cooper in a stomping cadence, "but he is supporting a oneworld, do-gooder, global-giveaway policy which has squandered the resources of the nation." Why, Gore even voted for reciprocal trade, in spite of the state's textile mills...