Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, after five effective and harassed years, Strauss last week announced his retirement from his job when his term expires at month's end. He turned down President Eisenhower's offer to reappoint him for a second five-year term (TIME, June 9), accepted instead a new post as special presidential assistant for atoms-for-peace. Replied Dwight Eisenhower in a letter of rare warmth accepting Strauss's resignation: "Thanks in large measure to your early awareness of the broadest military implications of nuclear science, the U.S. and other free nations are more secure against the threat...
...Strauss," said the Washington Post and Times-Herald on behalf of the gleeful critics "came to symbolize a kind of Aunty-Knows-Bestism ... a mania on secrecy and security . . . vindictiveness . . . devious methods." But the New York Daily News blew a razzberry at the critics: ALL-AMERICAN STRAUSS...
...posed by the insurgent French soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet, his trip to Algeria would end in disaster...
...live in areas "under administrative control." Even in one of the allegedly pacified zones-the Wissel Lakes region-the commission revealed that an uprising against the government and subsequent tribal warfare cost the lives of 200 Papuans and ten government troops in late 1956. At Agats sits a government post with 30 men, but its control hardly extends beyond the village limits and only 30 miles away a group of Papuans killed 50 enemies and ate them up. On Frederik Hendrik Island, 33% of all babies...
...happily, but in the all-too-frequent years of sagging prices and unwieldy surpluses they had to bear the losses and hope for better days. Even before Vice President Nixon's tour of Latin America, the U.S. was considering shifting its position. Last week, as part of the post-Nixon new look in U.S.-Latin American relations (TiME, June 2 et seg.), the U.S. agreed to join an international study group to seek a means of ending destructive coffee price fluctuations; State Department officials were making informal, embassy-by-embassy visits in Washington to discuss coffee problems...