Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student and prospective American citizen, I am naturally very much interested in the destiny of the United States as a nation. This country happens to be the leader of the free world and the main proponent of democratic ideology. It faces the greatest task in its entire history: to contain the forces of Communism and to remain at the pinnacle of world power; yet, it receives only superficial and passive support from a great number of its citizens...
TIME'S perceptive Nov. 16 indictment of a "shocking state of rottenness . . . deplorable level of public morality . . ." finds a most eloquent echo in the Wall Streeters' urge for those solid-gold golf putters at $1,475 apiece. Follow the leader, anyone...
...American public is not going to stand for what we have been doing much longer," said Kansas Farm Bureau President W. I. Boone last week. "The public is not going to keep on putting out money without getting results." Like many another leader in the wheat-corn belt, Boone recognized that farmers have just about harvested their way to the end of public patience with a farm subsidy program that now costs a scandalous $6.6 billion a year and gets worse with each crop (current Government-owned surplus: $9 billion...
Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had waged a buoyant campaign that left him unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider...
Further, Chaalal questioned de Gaulle's good faith, and also some of the French leader's proposals for an end to Algerian hostilities: specifically, that the French people, in a referendum of their own, would have to approve any Algerian decision...