Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jungle world of the party, there was plenty of room for snarling and backbiting. Khrushchev is plagued by disastrous crop failures, particularly in his own pet "virgin lands." Internationally, it has been three years since he first started issuing ultimatums on Berlin, and though hard pressed, the West still stands firm; Africa is in the balance and Asia desperately menaced by Communism. But despite fulminations and victory claims, Khrushchev cannot really record a major recent cold war success except Cuba. That, at least, is the situation as it must seem to extremists-or '"maximalists"-including Red China...
...losing a high school principal, superintendent of student teaching, basketball coach and 55 students at Wisconsin State College. Medford (pop. 1,622) is sending its mayor, its city attorney and three teachers. Rib Lake (pop. 794) is losing its only physician, Dr. Robert Pettera. Says Pet-tera: "I knew when I signed up that I had to be ready for something like this...
Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
...week that work got a start when the President signed into law the brand-new U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and named William Chapman Foster, 64, as its director. Set up as a semi-autonomous agency, operating out of the State Department building, ACADA has long been a pet Kennedy project. Appalled that only about 75 people in the U.S. Government were at work on disarmament planning under Eisenhower, Kennedy set out to create a specific agency for the work, got congressional approval a fortnight...
...Adjei spoke. President Kwame Nkrumah was courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission...