Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempting to add up the credits-and the debits-of the Khrushchev trip, no one could arrive at a flat sum. The West has many times before received promises from Communism and seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco...
...though he if often accused of them. Fidel Castro is not a Communist; he has accepted a few communist ideas, and has fallen for parts of the local communist line, but by no stretch of the definition is he a Communist. Fidel Castro is not merely an incompetent guerilla leader; though his executive abilities are questionable he works harder than almost any other chief of state in the world. Fidel Castro is not a god; Cuba's popular magazine, Bohemia, printed a sketch of him, brows furrowed, eyes cast upward, with a light halo about his curly locks...
...July 26th, 1953, in Oriente Province 125 youths attempted to storm the Moncada army post, manned by over 1,000 soldiers. Their leader, Fidel Castro, was counting upon the elements of surprise and timing to overwhelm the garrison, and later claimed that if a group of 45 men had not made a wrong turn on the outskirts of Moncada he would have succeeded...
According to Williams, the key man in the NDEA loyalty issue is Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D, Tex.), who voted for recommittal. If Johnson decides to back the repeal measure, perhaps in an attempt to gain Northern liberal support for a possible Presidential bid, the bill's prospects will improve considerably...
Shortly after Maddix's speech, New York City labor leader Harry A. Van Arsdale, Jr. charged Blue Cross with "tolerating excessive hospital costs" and keeping labor out of its administration. Unless they can have more of a say in Blue Cross, labor leaders claim they will start their own health plans and hospitals. (It might be added that hospital officials thought the "tolerating excessive costs" charge ironic in view of the attempt of unions to organize underpaid non-professional hospital workers last spring.) Furthermore, national health insurance, while not a political football at present, could easily become so with enough...