Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of how one of the nation's most responsible journalists learned of Project Argus, kept the story under wraps for six months out of a sense of personal responsibility, and why and how he finally decided to break it. see PRESS, The Times & the Secret...
Most Favored Nation. Caught somewhat in the middle was Soviet Russia. Last week, "pained" at the anti-Communist shouts of Communism's first Middle East beneficiary, Nikita Khrushchev blandly complained that Nasser was only fussing because the Iraqis would not let him annex their country. Though relations with Nasser "will continue as before," said Khrushchev, "our sympathy with Iraq is greater," because "Iraq has a more progressive order of things...
Greek Against Goliath. "Your name is a Doric column in the pantheon of the great heroes of our glorious nation," said Archbishop Theoklitos, Greek Orthodox Primate of Greece, presenting Grivas with the ancient Greek symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood...
...white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation...
General Chang planned to score a political as well as military victory. In addition to Chinese troops, he intended to take the field with 14,000 Red-trained Tibetans. And io make further propaganda, he asked the Dalai Lama, the nation's religious leader, to demonstrate his solidarity by lending his 5,000-man bodyguard to the expedition. The 23-year-old Dalai Lama, though a virtual prisoner of the Reds, politely refused...