Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steele never lets his historic musings make him forget the present. He has the battlefields cased for available telephones and keeps in touch with White House Press Headquarters in the converted basketball court at the Gettysburg Hotel-in case Neighbor Eisenhower makes any news...
Foreign Policy. Both support self-determination for all peoples, freedom for Communist satellites, U.S. aid for underdeveloped countries, a strong United Nations, an unequivocal ban on U.N. membership for Red China, regional mutual security pacts such as NATO and SEATO, the Good Neighbor policy, bipartisan conduct of foreign affairs, a release of U.S. prisoners in China, and reciprocal trade hedged by selective but vaguely defined protective tariffs. At issue: in the explosive Middle East, the Democrats advocate sale of "defensive weapons" to Israel; the Republicans pledge themselves to "support the independence of Israel against armed aggression...
...judgments to the point of understatement. With his main plea-for a more skilled and knowledgeable diplomatic setup-all will agree. But the reader will sadly conclude that the overall Kennan line is that the U.S. can do no better than to pursue what might be called a "Bad Neighbor Policy"; i.e., the U.S. should know an evil thing when it sees it, but know also that there is nothing much to be done about it. It is essentially the line taken by Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, who said about the Red Revolution...
Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...
...Speke, England, after complaining to no avail that a faulty switch in his neighbor's house was interfering with his TV set, Jack Pugh, 50, walked next door, spotted Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Morrison, watching their own TV, fired four bullets through the window, wounding them both and smashing their TV set, explained later to cops: "I acted under great provocation...