Word: lullingly
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...rebel leaders met to discuss the second round, there was talk in Tunis that the Algerians might send a ministerial delegation to Paris, but Premier Abbas might not be in it. "This is a lull, not a break," said an Algerian rebel at week...
...Scramblers. Despite last week's lull, the trials of Japanese democracy were far from over. Instead of uniting in the face of crisis, the eight factions that make up the Liberal Democratic Party were engaged in savage infighting over who was to succeed Kishi. Japan's big businessmen, anxious to get the country back to normal, were throwing their weight behind Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, the tough-minded economist who had helped the U.S. occupation's Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer...
...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
...Johnson was willing at this time to bow out in favor of the other; Stevenson was urged to endorse Kennedy, but decided to wait out the results of this week's Oregon primary, where all hopefuls-including Oregon's own Wayne Morse-are entered. In the lull, United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, political shop steward of Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, came out for Kennedy. So did Humphreyman Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action.* 9And even Eleanor Roosevelt, who has had her reservations about Jack Kennedy's Catholicism, issued the matriarchal...
...terror, more consumer goods" policy, and leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom and glimpsed an image of abundance. Accordingly, the argument runs, the forthcoming summit conference may be the beginning of a spell of peaceful negotiation rather than a mere lull between crises. Moscow seemed to echo this springtime mood of the Western world with a Pravda statement that the U.S.S.R. was "prepared to do everything to solve the German problem on a basis acceptable to the West as well...