Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named veteran Foreign Service Officer Julius C. Holmes, currently minister to Tangier, to examine "means to extend NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields." This means speeding the conversion of NATO from a narrow military pact into the broader politico-economic alliance that Secretary Dulles has been hinting...
Sound Instincts. The fact was that many a correspondent in Ike's audience was astonished, not so much by the President's popularity as by the realization that Ike, never a politico, had revealed himself as a man of sound politician's instincts. His veto of the ill-smelling natural gas bill last February and of the farm bill, his utter frankness about his health, and last week his swift appointment of the Senate's most distinguished Democrat, Georgia's retiring Walter George, to a NATO ambassadorship (see below) -all these have turned resoundingly...
...better-dressed, better-mannered politico than his father (Herman likes to chew tobacco, but generally settles for ten cigars a day), Talmadge Jr. ran an efficient state administration, is a successful farmer and lawyer as well as a bitter-end segregationist. He promises as a Senator to work to reverse the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision and to restrict the court's power generally. He refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia...
...abrupt change from familiar controls to chancy freedom might be no great trick for a South American dictatorship, ruled by decree; but in democratic Chile the reform is going ahead by vote of Congress, which is convinced that austerity is what the people want. One politico, who at first opposed the change, admitted last week, "We underestimated the civic conscience of our people...
...Soviet Union has emerged as the world's second industrial power, the originator of a new concept of rapid capital formation which may be ideally suited to the underdeveloped two thirds of the earth, and the generation and directing force in a powerful politico-military combination which looks on the United States as its adversary...