Word: informativeness
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...effect, Ambassador Cabot asked the critics of the U.S. to inform themselves and reconsider. "Brazil could adopt a new political orientation," warned Cabot, "only at the cost of endangering her own security as well as that of the U.S." Brazil's press threw open its columns, gave Cabot's blunt talk big and generally favorable play...
Before this summer's resolution the Congress had simply "encouraged its members to inform themselves on nuclear bomb testing as a subject of vital concern to the educated student." But the Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...
...Please inform that fathead (doesn't rhyme with anything) of yours that the Tigers of Detroit are still in the American League. Possibly he will find out for himself in September...
...Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left, he had written a letter designating who should take over his duties as Premier and Minister of Defense. Israel...
Hope for the Best. With so much to do in so short a time, a little confusion was inevitable, but the Franco regime has a special talent for it. Though the whole world knew about the devaluation of the new peseta, the government forgot to inform its own foreign-exchange institute, which tells the banks what to do. Furthermore, many prominent businessmen and politicians, including the Minister of Industry himself, have gone on record as opposed to the program, and while the government austerity drive against monopolies sounds fine on the surface, it excludes those that really count-the monopolies...