Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every big story produces its black headlines and its clattering bulletins, but the heart of the matter almost always lies at a deeper level. Getting to that meaningful depth is business. Some cases in point in this week's issue...
...harsh facts of the matter are that we have gone soft-physically, mentally, spiritually soft," said Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy last week, restating a warning woven into his speeches since September. "We are in danger of losing our will to fight, to sacrifice, to endure. The slow corrosion of luxury is already beginning to show." Bejeweled and tuxedoed Hollywood Democrats nodded solemnly. As he introduced Campaigner Kennedy, California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was attuned to the issue. Asked he: "Shall we allow a chromium-plated materialism to be the principal apparent goal of our national life...
...political climate between the two nations improved this year, and after months of polite suggestions from Cairo that talks resume, the Sudan's military strongman, Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, finally sent a new delegation north to discuss the matter. The Sudan had a reason of its own to settle with Egypt: it, too, was planning some big irrigation projects, could get World Bank loans only if the Nile dispute was ended...
Nasser himself greeted the Sudanese and put them up at Tahra Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every...
Things have been quiet in Coon Rapids, Iowa, since the clamorous visit of Nikita Khrushchev in September. Matter of fact, Khrushchev's Iowa host, corn-rich Farmer Roswell Garst, allowed last week that he had not even got a bread-and-butter note from his Soviet acquaintance. But Garst was taking the apparent ingratitude with equanimity: "Probably won't hear from him again until he wants something...