Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proven and continuing firmness. Principal element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
...this, as President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and others in the Administration high command are telling the inner councils, is not enough. To win this battle, Nixon told a TIME correspondent last week, the U.S. must move ahead-in stepped-up people-to-people exchanges; in training technicians, administrators, businessmen to serve overseas; in meeting and debating with Communists and neutralists in world labor unions, student organizations; in finding better ways of bolstering the cause of freedom behind the Iron Curtain...
Immediate cause of this coordinated shake-up was a portentous rumor that began to buzz through Europe's chancelleries as 1958 waned. To celebrate the inauguration of the Common Market, so the story ran, West Germany planned to make the Deutsche Mark freely convertible currency-a move that might well transfer the banking capital of Europe from London to Bonn...
...fewer than 7,800,000 World War II vets took on-job or school training, 2,200,000 of them in college. There they built no Hutchins "hobo jungles" but Quonset villages whence hard-working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move," says a Harvard dean, "and they moved." They more than doubled the number who, by prewar standards, would have been trained for the professions: 168,000 doctors and dentists, 105,000 lawyers, 93,000 social scientists and economists, 238,000 teachers, 440,000 engineers, 112,000 scientists...
...long, Rebel Leader Fidel Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...