Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down to Cents. The changing liberal of 1959 is already distinguishable from his New Deal daddy by the fact that he is not a big spender. He keeps a careful dollars-and-cents account of his own appropriations record to show the folks at home, and casts a watchful eye on the legislative expense accounts of other liberals, lest he be typed as a too-big spender. He also worries about job security (says Brademas: "It's a matter of survival. We want to stay around. We aren't here just for an experiment"). Some bubbles...
Egypt. Nasser, chastened by forced coexistence with Kassem, and wiser in the ways of Communist purposes in the Middle East, seems less tense than he was, less eager for adventures, more mindful of mending fences and improving the economy at home. The fact that the most pervasive propaganda weapon in the Middle East, Nasser's Cairo radio, now outspokenly attacks the Communists in the Middle East is a gain...
...airmen were behaving in Japan. He fired his first salvo last fall, when he bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents." He blamed "cheap entertainment in the clubs and cheap domestic help in the home." Japanese maids, says Colonel Johnstone, "are expected by some Americans to cook, clean, launder, answer the telephone and be governess, all for $25 a month. And where are the parents in such cases? Out visiting their neighbors and getting tanked...
...this year, there have been only two scandals involving teenagers: five boys were sent back to the U.S. after an 18-year-old Japanese girl accused them of rape, and one American girl was packed home after allegedly spending 4½ days in a hotel with a Japanese man. But each week brings its share of lesser incidents. The children rip up school buses, delight in throwing things out of the windows. "One day," says Johnstone, "a school bus passed me belching smoke from every window. All the kids were smoking. And as I watched bug-eyed at the sight...
...rose, went into a small office, wrote out his resignation, sent it to the television studio, turned his head to the wall and sobbed. All that he asked in the note was an armed guard to see him and his wife and three children through the mob to the home of his brother-in-law. As the resignation was read over the air, Castro deadpanned: "Let him go if he wants to, like any other citizen...