Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves. But it is speeding arms deliveries by air to Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia...
...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...
...Nations, $500 Million. During the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which starts this week, more than 10,000 scientists backed by something like $500 million will give the earth a long, complex, intent going-over. The IGY, which runs from 7:00 p.m. E.S.T. June 30, 1957 through Dec. 31, 1958, was originally -the idea of an informal group of scientists led by Physicist Lloyd V. Berkner, who is head of the group of Eastern universities that runs. Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1953 the International Council of Scientific Unions accepted responsibility for IGY. Nation after nation offered men, observing stations, apparatus...
...trouble with the college generation of the first quarter-century was that it was lost, the trouble with ours is that it isn't. Today's young men and women seem intent, if upon anything at all, on preserving their air of absolute, rightness, polish, and balance, of belonging to the corporate body of the Shoe and the Sophisticated...
Gateway to Justice. Last week, after a thorough restudy of the evidence, Public Prosecutor Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni...