Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy implications of these two propositions run in opposite directions: Proposition No. 1 suggests that the U.S. should give more help to the underdeveloped countries. Proposition No. 2 suggests that the U.S. cannot afford to give more, perhaps ought to give less. To resolve this clash of directions is the challenge of U.S. foreign economic policy, and the task that Robert Anderson has set for himself...
France Alone. With the big partners at odds, the smaller among the 15 partners in NATO-bureaucratically known as "the less directly responsible powers"-were demanding the right to be heard. NATO's Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, who wants a thorough re-examination of policy, is convinced that "we are at the beginning of a new phase. I believe that the Russians need a long period of peace...
...lordly disregard of alliance by committee might be, his partners were in no position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris was likely to be better then...
...Indonesia. That aging nationalist spellbinder, President Sukarno, opened the session with an oration proclaiming that Asians should reject everything from the West except its money. Asian as well as non-Asian delegates found Sukarno's program dated tiresome and useless. "The time has come for us to think less of the colonial past and more of what tasks in fact lie ahead of us," said Ceylon's Finance Minister Stanley de Zoysa, to the biggest applause of the session...
...informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest...