Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join the Baghdad grouping outright would antagonize Israel and Saudi Arabia. In reality, as the pact members recognized, only Dulles could save the meeting from failure and unseemly bickering. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd quickly made clear that Britain was sympathetic to the area members' pleas, but could offer no more help just now. It was up to Dulles...
...over the country to march on the capital, threatened to investigate graft by M.D.N. leaders and "jail them as thieves." But behind the scenes he talked smoothly with Cruz Salazar about the need for "national unity" against Communism. Bowing to the best hope for peace. Cruz Salazar accepted the offer of M.D.N. participation in the Cabinet, an ambassadorial post for himself. Some militant M.D.N. Congressmen cried sellout, but enough will probably go along to give Ydigoras his majority. With the confidence of a winner, the general began expertly easing off on campaign slogans against foreign influence in Guatemala. He talked...
...education." But some school officials doubted that Georgia should get off quite so easily. Reported De Kalb County Superintendent Jim Cherry: "Less than half the white children in Georgia are completing the present high school program. Less than 20% of the Negroes graduate. A great majority of high schools offer no chemistry and physics, and others offer it only in alternate years. Advanced algebra, trigonometry and solid geometry are not available in the great majority of Georgia high schools. Science and libraries are limited. Vocational courses such as mechanical drawing and mechanics are not available...
...plan to build a small car in the U.S.? Curtice answered: "Over the years that has been under constant study. Thus far it has not been economic to offer a small car. That is because you take the value out of it so much more rapidly than you do the cost...
Clearance Sale. In Milwaukee, taking advantage of a drugstore's offer of "all the chicken you can eat for 99?," John Lietz, 43, polished off four platefuls, called the cops when he was refused more, ended up downing eleven orders in all, explained: "I'm just a bargain hunter...