Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program ought to be modified. Nearly everybody is agreed that the U.S. has to get out from under its lonely foreign-aid load (estimated 1959 spending: $5.5 billion) in one way or another. The President backs Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's concept that the U.S. ought to join with prospering Western allies to create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association (IDA), capitalized with a joint $1 billion, which will get its first public airing week after next, when the governors...
These developments are all peopled by the newly prospering Negro middle class, who all seem to have one thing in common : a fever for good living. Technicians, professional men, teachers, nurses, well-paid factory workers, federal employees-they settle where the air is clean and the schools good, join the P.T.A., buy power lawnmowers, curse the crab grass, endure the rigors of commuting, barbecue their steaks, buy second cars and second TV sets, grumble about taxes...
...health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going on to the office." Of course, adds Author Wouk. "Mr. Abramson will not die. When his amnesia clears, he will be Mr. Adamson, and his wife and children will join him, and all will be well. But the Jewish question will be over in the United States. If this should happen-and I do not for a moment think it will-would it be a solution that either the Jews or the United States would welcome? Does America want the disappearance...
Stale Scoop. Quartered in Vientiane's vermin-infested Constellation Hotel, newsmen of necessity pooled their scraps of information. One reporter who did not join the sweaty, sociable circle was Pundit Joe Alsop Jr., who arrived with a copy of Thucydides under one arm, sped off to an air-conditioned room in the residence of U.S. Ambassador Horace H. Smith. Columnist Alsop stealthily cabled what he thought was a scoop on the Laotian appeal to the United Nations. Trouble was that the reporter pool at the Constellation had filed the same story the day before...
...Last Quarter (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Four NBC correspondents-Joseph Harsch (London), Edwin Newman (Paris), Irving Levine (Rome), John Rich (Berlin)-join their domestic colleagues in a discussion of the events that will probably make the next months' headlines...