Word: na
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NA : National Affairs section...
Before an issue of TIME goes to press, a short may turn into a parmark (only to be outspaced later), a twin-bed position may be dummied, a stringer queried for a checking poin't, a widow picked up near the NA researchers' bullpen, and double trucks left bleeding in the gutter...
...amaz ing display, not only of the Eleanorean character and its impact upon the feverishly nationalistic (and often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi...
...Queen Elizabeth. By Catholic account, Scottish James actually sought Catholic support for himself when he first moved to London, changed his mind when he found himself popular with his Protestant subjects. On viewing his first cheering English crowd, the story goes, James turned to a councilor and said, "Na, na, guid fayth, wee's not need the Papists...
...Government's Point Four program to develop the economies of backward na tions with private capital has been a flop...