Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy in the Middle East, stressing that it has one basic aim: maintenance of peace. Recognizing needs of defense and internal security, he said, the U.S. might sell more arms to both the Arabs and the Israelis. But he believes that the hope of little Israel lies in mutual security through the United Nations, not in an arms race with the immensely larger and more populous Arab states...
Motives aside, Eisenhower as President has shown that when he does take personal control over foreign affairs, his creative leadership is apparent. The Atoms-for-Peace plan, the Geneva Conference, and the scheme for mutual aerial inspection have all shown that the President when he chooses, is his own best Secretary of State. Indeed, at one critical point, Eisenhower had to side-step both the Vice President and Foster Dulles to prevent U.S. troops from fighting a hopeless defense of Indo-china...
...best-known coffee-break business in the U.S.-and probably the biggest-is operated by Schrafft's East Coast restaurant chain. In 1950 Schrafft's was called in by the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to do something about the daily chaos caused by 1,700 kaffeeklatsching employees on 13 floors, all trying to go up or down the elevators at the same time. Schrafft's sent a battalion of waitresses with specially equipped carts rolling from desk to desk, cut coffeetime truancy so effectively that 500 other employers were soon clamoring for the service...
While the State Department's position on the jets will enrage the Arabs and aggravate the French, it cannot further either of its conflicting aims in the Middle East--mutual security or the protection of Israel. Israel is not a part of the vital northern tier which Dulles feels must be armed to save the Middle East from Communist attacks. Nor would the jets really give Israel internal security: she could never maintain enough to forestall a large-scale aggression, while just a few warplanes might stimulate that aggression. As Dulles himself has pointed out, Israel is too small...
Pakistan last week announced its willingness to meet with the Russians on matters of "mutual advantage"-a surprising about-face two months after Russia had noisily endorsed Afghanistan's territorial ambitions against Pakistan, and India's right to the Kashmir...