Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play Ball. Soft words last week also met seven U.S. mayors who marched into the White House in the company of Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole. The mayors had a simple demand that typified Ike's budget problems, i.e., they wanted the President not only to fight for the $75 million in federal slum-clearance funds that Cole voluntarily cut from his budget but to release a $100 million housing reserve fund as well. Ike praised the mayors' announcement that cities were spending $10 for every $2 in federal aid. At the same time...
General Abu Nuwar, a shifty-eyed playboy with little command experience, is a crony of Syria's pro-Soviet strongman, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. They had met when they were fellow military attachés in Paris, now talked daily by telephone. Against this impressive lineup, the young King could count only on loyal forces inside the army and the support of Bedouin chiefs...
...protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits to unbelievers, and met the Moroccans as friendly equals. When he sent the Foreign Legion to subdue rebellious chiefs, he warned his commanders: "Always show your force in order to avoid using it. Never enter a village without thinking that the market must be opened the next...
...ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little Hilaire grew up bilingual, binational...
...good side of Belloc was his freshly un-English point of view and the strength of character that went with his narrowness. His marriage is an extraordinary example of his tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed her home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman...