Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against fortification of Guam and against the draft just before Pearl Harbor, still has to defend the votes in every election), Halleck soon broke with the defeated Willkie on foreign policy, but not before he outraged Indiana's Taft regulars by revealing a key political trait: in the interest of party unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party's first House majority for 16 years...
Real focus of the commission's interest, however, was its ambitious attempt to come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple...
...show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis to crisis, and being pulled through each time by blood transfusions...
...comprehensive credit card that will permit holders to charge everything from shoes and doctors' bills to liquor and the costs of artificial insemination of cows. "Bankamericard" customers will be billed at the end of each month, charged 1½%-a-month interest if they wish to let the bill go longer than 25 days. The cards are free and available to nondepositors. The bank will collect up to 6% from participating merchants on purchases...
...history. The victors: Britain's aggressive Tube Investments, Ltd., and Reynolds Metals, No. 2 U.S. aluminum company. Down with the British Aluminium management went Alcoa, No. 1 U.S. producer, which had hoped to get an important foothold in Europe's aluminum market by buying one-third interest in British Aluminium. Also among the casualties: the prestige of Britain's old-school-tie financial community...