Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Europe. Red China stirred up ferment on the borders of India. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations for help. The U.S., in a stern statement, flatly charged "the Communist bloc" with intent to "foment and direct a rebellion within Laos," noted that the outbreak in Laos had followed conferences in Moscow and Peking, promised to support any "necessary" free world action...
...builders using federal loans be required to abide by antidiscrimination laws. In the field of education, the commission suggested that it serve as a clearing house for information about procedures used in school desegregation, and called for an annual school census "by race" and a federal advisory service to help local school officials plan transition periods from segregated to integrated systems...
...meetings. Equally clearly, that suited him fine. Fact is that Peking does not like the prospect, however slim, of a major relaxation of the tensions between Russia and the West. For Mao still requires the cold fear of war hanging over the heads of his 650 million subjects to help force the harsh realities of the Communist revolution down their throats. Peasant resistance to Mao's rural communes, though chiefly passive, has reached proportions alarming to Peking: food, coal, steel and industrial production are sagging far below earlier boastful figures. And for all his claims that Red China...
...Truman will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined, "I've got an undertaker friend...
...Before they could use sea water or navigate through it, they would have to learn some things that would be perfectly obvious to anyone who had lived by the sea." Last week the National Science Foundation announced grants of $500,000 to M.I.T. and $300,000 to Harvard to help humans understand the plasma ocean around them...