Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained...
William Cremins, Deputy Chief of the Fire Department, complained that the number of parked cars made it "impossible for our men to get in there." The illegally parked cars prevented the firemen from getting their equipment close enough to the fire without wasting several minutes trying to maneuver through the...
Inept at the Switch. Jack Kennedy, politician, was-and is-a long way from the likes of Pat Kennedy and Honey Fitz, a fact still resented by some of Boston's old Irish types. Says one: "Tell me, who'd he ever get a job for? When did...
Again last week the unions dominated by former Dictator Juan Perón jousted with President Pedro Aramburu by staging a nation-wide general strike. Again Aramburu won the test by virtue of sound planning and unruffled firmness. To keep fhe threatened 48-hour walkout within bounds, he alerted 50...
Controlled for the first time in 22 years by the Conservatives, Canada's Parliament gathered last week in delicate political balance. For Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, heading a ruling minority of no Tories* in a 265-seat House of Commons, the order of business was to pass an ambitious...