Word: outerness
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...losers have all been banished to the sticks. That old Kremlin durable, Molotov, presented his credentials as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
...easy time. During the week he had watched Mai, who had never tried bowling before he went to Forest Hills, go out for an evening's entertainment and bowl a respectable 200. He had also watched Mai on the tennis courts, whipping America's awkward in-and-outer Dick Savitt in straight sets. This was one week when Mai Anderson's luck seemed all good...
...word slip out to a friend. Last week all Brazil was abuzz about the reluctant claim of João de Freitas Guimaraes. 48. a wealthy, respected professor of Roman law at Santos' Catholic University. Did the professor really take an hour-long whirl through outer space in a flying saucer...
Before him there echoed strident Syrian cries: "We are positive neutralists! We are at the outer edge of that policy-do not force us to go beyond it!" Behind him sounded presidential words of caution. "The pattern that is seemingly emerging is an old one for the Soviets." said Dwight Eisenhower at his weekly press conference: "to offer economic and military aid ... to find stooges that will do their will, and finally, to take over the country. Now, in Syria, how far this pattern has gone we don't know...
...country a Communist, then I am a Communist." Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who has just concluded a $100 million military-aid deal with the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 19), stridently insisted that Syria's policy was one of "positive neutrality," sententiously added: "We are at the outer edge of that policy-do not force us to go beyond...