Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the world. It was new in that it projected the factor of U.S. power into a defense of the area. ,It was also new in its attempt to provide economic flexibility 'in achieving another sustained U.S. objective for the area-the raising of its economic level...
...anti-Western mood that Nehru was whipping up in India last week had all but undone any good that came out of the Eisenhower-Nehru meeting. British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald reported to London that Britain's standing in India is at a dangerously "low level." In fact, not all Indians apparently recognize at what point they are to check their criticism of Britain and the U.S. The Economic Review, official organ of Nehru's Congress Party, published two inflammatory editorials. The first suggested that the foreign policy of the Eisenhower Administration reflects the prevalence of juvenile delinquency...
Like a winter-weary farmer watching for the first robin, the auto industry has been nervously looking for signs of a spring upsurge in sales. Last week the robin appeared. New-car sales for the last week in February, announced Ward's Reports, "shot to the highest level in seven months, heralding the awaited spring market upturn." Ford announced that retail sales of Mercury, Lincoln, Ford and Continental for the first two months of 1957 totaled 293,008, the greatest in its history for the period...
While all this is indeed enjoyable for the players off the ice, there is one rub to Broadmoor, or rather to Colorado Springs. The city itself is almost 7000 feet above sea level, and the oxygen content of the air is considerably lower than at sea level. This has no effect on CC teams as they are used to it, but eastern sextets have often found that they are far more tired in the third period than they had been throughout the season. This year Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland decided not to bring oxygen along on the trip as other...