Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's Sputniks, as evidences of technological and industrial prowess, nudged Western Europe toward neutralism. To combat neutralism the U.S. must show Europe economic and political leadership. With leadership urgently needed, it would be "national folly" for the U.S. to retreat toward protectionism...
...Manila, Philippine President Carlos Garcia described the launching as "the best proof of the free world's claim that in the field of technology as well as elsewhere it can and has maintained its leadership." West Germany's Welt am Sonntag observed that "space no longer belongs to the Soviet Union alone. America has caught up with the Soviet Sputnik lead." It added, with pardonable local pride, that the achievement was "a personal triumph for Wernher von Braun and his German colleagues...
...nationalists, who had always favored federation, suddenly realized that federation would still leave the way clear for Khaled el Azm to become President of Syria, began pressing Nasser for an outright merger. Nasser, who not only shared their misgivings but saw a chance to regain the Arab world leadership lost by his ignominious Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel, set one big condition. He demanded that the Syrians agree to dissolve all parties in the merger, and accept a single Nasserite National Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed. The Communists apparently...
...torture-scarred hands of Janos Kadar were a dual convenience for the Russian conquerors. Those hands could sign the death decrees that crushed revolutionary leadership. And their scars were a reminder that the Premier himself had suffered to the limit (including emasculation) in old Premier Rakosi's Stalinist jail, thus represented to despairing Hungarians a glimmering hope of a better Communist leadership. Kadar soon destroyed what hope there was. His guarantees of democratic reforms never came through; vows of amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support...
Ride a Rambler, Romney urged Wagner, thereby "benefiting taxpayers as well as taking leadership in reducing traffic congestion and parking problems." But the mayor politely declined the offer from Romney to place three Ramblers at Wagner's disposal for test-driving...