Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summit Meetings. I do not oppose summit meetings as such. Indeed, I have always believed that we should not permit ourselves to be placed in the position of opposing a conference at any level, including the summit. My major point was that a summit conference is useless unless we know what we wish to discuss there. I do believe that the manner in which we have prepared for the coming meeting has not been too responsible...
...impact on the uncommitted depends not only on the level of our economic aid but equally importantly on the dynamism and conviction of our domestic performance. It is with respect to the latter that I said that the present pedantry in the West is not likely to prove very appealing to the new nations. The whole point of my remarks, however, was that the United States could easily double its economic aid program, that Western Europe could participate at our present level and that this should be a joint effort...
...success, Tange found himself growing restless with the international modern style he had inherited from the West, increasingly probed into Japan's deep architectural past. There he found heavy beams and posts (necessary in an earthquake-plagued country), a love of structural expression, and at the most primitive level, ancient pit houses with thatched roofs that heavily emphasize weight and volume (as opposed to the elegantly simple floating structures with shoji screens familiar to most Westerners...
...Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely 1% of the 4,000,000-man labor force...
...represents a victory for advocates of a continued high level of foreign aid over those in the administration who have been more concerned with cutting costs in an effort to approach a balanced budget...