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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctrine, Nasser said: "While Russia helps us, the U.S. freezes $50 million in Egyptian funds." Last week, as Nasser kept asking Washington to "clarify the vague parts" of a plan that his controlled press was denouncing as "more sinister than anything British imperialism could possibly conceive," the U.S. made plain that it had not opposed the Anglo-French invasion of Suez just to save Nasser's bacon, and hinted that it was not out merely to restore the status quo ante (see below). The Eisenhower Administration now expects to assist only those countries -say Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon...
...sharp contrast stands the notorious Neighborhood Four. Here the social problems are acute. Many families have lost the father, sometimes accidentally, sometimes through incarceration, sometimes because he just plain ran away. The neighborhood claims 25% of the City's mother's aid cases and 22% of the City's relief cases...
...city shook from an explosion in one of the Southside Negro sections. Four minutes later another blast rocked another part of the city; it was followed almost immediately by two more. By then, as thousands of startled Montgomerians poured into the streets to survey the damage, it was plain what was on foot-a well-planned, militarylike raid on the citadels of the Negro integrationist movement...
...coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes, the boss breaks the silence with three words: "I'll buy it." That throws the entire network behind Ferrer. He sets off with his tape recorder to find out from those who knew...
...love it, and who, by a combination of inclination and political fortune, make their life there. These men are tolerant of one another, but aware of what they consider "proper" for a Senator. Their philosophy accounts for both the long time it took to punish Senator McCarthy, even for plain violations of our political tradition, and the way he was finally punished (for disrespect to fellow members and bringing disrepute on the Senate...