Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nuclear Issue. In Paris last week, French Defense Minister Pierre Messmer was coolly correct about Operation Big Lift. "Tres interessant," he sniffed, courteously refraining from saying I-told-you-so about the widely whispered suggestion that this meant, as Charles de Gaulle had often predicted, the U.S. would retreat from Europe and leave the Continental powers to their own devices. But the Gaullist paper La Nation spelled out a reasonable
...correctness of the French position. It is becoming clear that Europe, whether she wishes to or not, must count more and more on herself. And would it not be better for her to be able to defend herself not with human chests but also with nuclear weapons? 'Big Lift' is perhaps a gigantic transport operation. But it is above all a little 'Operation Truth...
Broken Symbols. The country has yet to develop a real pride of nationhood to lift it finally above what Theologian Helmut Thielicke calls the "paralyzing complexes" about the past. With the world's curses at Hitler still ringing in Germany's ears, says Thielicke, "we still do not feel free to use a word like Vaterland uninhibitedly for fear of being misunderstood. And because we have a complex about it, many of us are even embarrassed by our national anthem - Deutschland uber Alles, though its original meaning was simply a child's declaration of love...
...Diem are settling down to a long contest of wills. The U.S. seems determined to keep up the pressure, but obviously might have to lift the ban on aid if and when the whole South Vietnamese economy is pushed too close to chaos. Diem well knows this U.S. dilemma and so far has shown no sign whatever of giving in to U.S. demands...
Booming auto sales have made bright times for steelmakers. So have brisk orders for steel to be used in freight cars, appliances and construction (given a lift by the prolonged balmy weather). With production rising for most of the past two months, steelmakers last week predicted that they would produce 108 million tons this year-up 10 million tons from 1962. Prices and profits are also on the rise. This promises to be by far the best year for the nation's basic industry since...