Word: leftward
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...been a curious meeting of minds. Educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford, a world-famed author and lecturer, a leftward-leaning pillar of England's Establishment, Barbara Ward, 51, acquired at the top the same idealistic bent to which Lyndon Johnson aspired from the bottom. It can best be described as messianic materialism, a creed that renders unabashedly both to Caesar and to conscience...
...spoke grandly of attacking the "imperialists" with a "Djakarta-Pnompenh-Hanoi, Peking-Pyongyang axis," which sounds like an airline route but is nothing more than a dream that he has often toyed with in the past. The speech confirmed continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize U.S. oil and rubber interests that are already undergovernment control. U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green heard...
...Mellowed Fervor. One priceless product of the economic boom is a new confidence on the part of both Mexicans and foreigners. Born of the 1910 revolution, Mexico's one-party regime has often frightened investors with land seizures, expropriation and talk of leftward drift. But time has mellowed revolutionary fervor. Though the government still controls such basic industries as oil, railroads and electric power, Mexico's present political leaders have created a healthy climate in which private enterprise is actively encouraged. As a result, Mexicans have taken their money from Swiss and U.S. banks and invested...
...Western leaders that Zanzibar, since its savage coup last January against the old Arab ruling crowd, was sliding into the Communist camp. Early last month, Nyerere sent Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona winging across the 23-mile channel that separates the two countries with an ultimatum: unless Zanzibar halted its leftward slither, Tanganyika would dissociate itself from Zanzibar and withdraw the 300 field policemen who have been on loan there since the coup to keep order...
...fractions. When he takes three of four segments and divides their sum into thirds, he discovers that two of these thirds make one-half of the full unit. He thus has visible proof of the otherwise abstruse fact that 2/3 times 3/4 equals 1/2. By extending the number line leftward beyond zero, he visualizes the concept of negative numbers...