Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador hailed the granting of independence to Cuba by Roosevelt as "part of the American tradition" of foreign policy. It was, he said, in line with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon, and in contrast to the actions of the Russians, "who enter a country and stick there...
...American Indians). Agent Rivers is finding the white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...
...Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily, rising and thereby terminating an interview with Lewis Strauss, then special assistant to the President on atomic-energy matters, "you have wasted half an hour of my time...
...troops [on Quemoy and Matsu] were excessive for the needs of the situation," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance the press had put on his comment fortnight before (TIME, Oct. 13) that the Chinese Nationalists were "foolish" to concentrate...
...York Times, which had applauded the President's "momentous" speech last month drawing the line against appeasement at Quemoy and Matsu, last week advocated that the islands be turned over to Communist China...