Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Congress considers foreign aid bad politics. The House last month slashed Ike's "rock bottom" $1.6 billion military-aid request to $1.3 billion, sent it to the Senate. Fighting back, Ike last week sent along Draper's strong report, demanded repairs on the "dangerously low" aid bill. Draper, more explicit, called the congressional cuts "a serious security danger for the United States." His committee found that military aid, along with economic aid, is basic to the U.S.'s "entire forward strategy and hope for the future...
Waiting for October. The tough Laotian army paratroops around Samneua are in good spirits, despite low pay and meager supplies; in recent weeks they have brought in 50 prisoners and killed 200 rebels in difficult jungle warfare. In general, however, Laos' 25,000-man army is poorly trained and must fight piecemeal over large parts of the country. New Communist attacks in four other Laotian provinces last week were obviously designed to spread the defenses even thinner. Some Laotian leaders concede that
...years after he was booted off his throne, Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk is still his country's most popular whipping boy. Accused of all sorts of high and low crimes, Farouk got word from Cairo last week that he is now up for a new title: "Most dangerous thief of Egyptian antiquities." His accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared...
...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
Epstein reacted to criticism like a maddened elephant, but never let the struggle affect his art. "The man in the street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort...