Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months have illustrated this new attitude. It is now well-known that the President personally over-ruled the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September when they raised the possibility of American intervention against Communist china during the hassle around Quemoy Island. The attack on an American plane off northern Japan a few weeks later gave the proponents of a "get tough" policy in the Far East still another argument. But the President insisted that the settlement of the place incident be consigned to normal diplomatic channels, a safe distance from newspaper headlines...
This second myth was killed by the censure vote. To a man, the Democrats voted against McCarthy. Their liberal wing from the northern cities was utterly unterrified by the fact that many of McCarthy's most fanatic followers are Democrats. The Democratic liberals were forced by the vote to abandon their dangerous pretense that the Senate feared McCarthy. The Southern Democrats, who include some of the most conservative men in the Senate, likewise voted against him-rejecting any pretensions McCarthy might have to being a conservative...
Novelist Louis Bromfield, a deft-penned agrarian reformer who has made a fair amount of money by writing about saving the soil and such to make farming pay, auctioned off his 60-head herd of purebred Holstein dairy cattle, which had browsed at his famed Malabar Farm in northern Ohio. Reason for the sale, at which bids were alarmingly low: dairying didn...
Mattei, a carabiniere's son and a wartime partisan, got into the oil business in 1945 when he was made Northern Commissioner of E.N.I.'s predecessor, the state-owned A.G.I.P. (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli), with the job of selling off its assets. Mattei defied the orders, kept his equipment and put prospectors to work in Italy's big Po Valley. Soon, Mattei was boss of all A.G.I.P. His geologists found a big methane gas deposit with an initial production (1.5 billion cu. ft.) greater than all the rest of Italy's fields. By 1953, Mattei...
...course, India has its own troops concentrated on the Northern border near China and Tibet, but India's main weapon against infiltration from Red China is not arms but internal stability...