Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tactic when Ike refused to compromise on the budget line. Johnson was blamed by labor for swinging key Texas Congressmen to a tough version of the labor reform bill. So by half time, Johnson had picked up a serious new handicap: many a labor leader and many a Northern Democrat have vowed to see that he gets no place on the 1960 ticket...
...special hazards; in some areas, white building inspectors and utility companies drag their feet when Negro tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even has a layaway system that allows buyers to sign up for homes and pay out the down payments in monthly installments. "We went into it for a profit...
...Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North...
Wherever Nehru turned last week, India was in difficulties, and he was held ultimately responsible. On his nation's northern frontier, Red Chinese invaders made a mockery of his cherished ideal of peaceful coexistence with Peking, and rumors flew of continued bloody skirmishes between Chinese and Indian patrols. In Calcutta, India's largest city (pop. 4,000,000), Communist-led food riots raged into their fifth day as howling mobs stoned the police, burned ambulances, sacked food stores and police stations. By week's end 27 rioters had been shot dead, and only the arrival of Indian...
...trip he made last week was the kind Duplessis took often, and carried off well, at once political fence mending and approving official inspection of Quebec's industrial progress, which he had earnestly nourished. Boarding a Dakota, he flew north over the bleak vastness of the northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled...