Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heroes. Around the world as the Christmas festoons went up, the contrasting impact began to show. Only last spring, Iceland (pop. 158,000), lulled by Soviet coos of coexistence, had asked U.S. troops and airmen to pull out of the strategic air base of Keflavik; last week Iceland considered Budapest and reversed itself, asking the U.S. troops and airmen to please stay...
Twenty-two miles west of Milwaukee, in the little (pop. 1,190) town of Hartland, pupils and faculty members of the Arrowhead High School paraded into an apartment for which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous...
Iraq. Syria's larger and richer eastern neighbor (pop. 5,200,000) has long been the only strongly pro-Western Arab state. This is largely the doing of astute old Premier Nuri es-Said, 68, once an officer in the Ottoman army. His country is oil prosperous, and invests 70% of its royalties in soundly planned long-range improvements (dams, irrigation, schools). But the mobs in the streets, stirred by Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios, denounce Nuri es-Said as a British stooge. Last week open trouble broke out. For six days Arabs demonstrated in the holy city...
...Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy...
Three months had passed since the National Guard marched into little (pop. 4,000) Clinton, Tenn., to enforce the right of nine Negroes to attend the all-white high school (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week, the peace that seemed to have settled over the town turned out to be no peace...