Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt the rumbling landslide, scurried to get with it. Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin, who had pushed Faubus toward making a big issue of integration at Central High School last fall, weighed in quickly with an expected telegram on the "splendid victory." Mississippi Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adams wired: "Northern Democratic leaders should scrape the wax out of their ears." Louisiana's Governor Earl Long thought it was "a pity there are not more people like him at the helms of government." Florida's LeRoy Collins saw the results as reflecting "overwhelming resentment" against federal troops; North Carolina...
...forces get out immediately, and that the great powers bind themselves not to intervene militarily in the Middle East from now on. He might get further mileage out of proposing an embargo on arms shipments to the area, knowing that the West would not abandon arms support of the Northern Tier of nations. The U.S., to accent the positive, would propose, among other things, an international economic development fund for the Middle East and a strengthening of U.N. capabilities to deal with "indirect aggression...
...that the combination of unemployment and rainy weekends has made more people borrow more books than ever. Once they defined the wet summer's cause, meteorologists last week volunteered more bad news. The stubborn planetary winds show no sign of changing their tactics. Early August forecast for the northern U.S. east of the Rockies and for mildewing Midwesterners in particular: more rain...
When Nasser got down to the Dertinent topic of what his revolution had accomplished inside his own country, he touched with unexpected frankness on his troubles in exploiting his victorious annexation of "the northern region of Syria," which was presumably a richer economy than Egypt's. Confessed Nasser: "The past five months of union have not achieved the degree of production we had hoped for. I did not acquaint myself with the budget of the Syrian region before proclaiming unity. It seems there was a deficit in Syria's budget. Syria's reserve had all been spent...
...Hashemites of the Middle East: his people are Moslem but not Arab, and are thus beyond the limits of Nasser's current ambitions. The Shah's chief internal worry is the presence of 1,000,000 Kurds. This ancient group (whose great ancestor was Saladin) spread across northern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, as well as the Soviet Caucasus. Russians employ their own Kurds to subvert the others...