Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
...from the Heart. Ingenious as some of its imitators might be, the U.S. still stood pre-eminent in the art of aidmanship. It was getting resigned to expecting no gratitude, and to accepting anomalies. Recognizing that poverty always has its claims on the rich, the U.S. could observe, in Latin America and the Middle East, that poor nations often had some mighty extravagant spenders among them. Italy had its 2,000,000 unemployed -and its rich who escape honest taxation. Wealthy Actress Gina Lollobrigida made the headlines last week by reporting a taxable income of only...
...save over 90% of the population and restore the pre-attack American standard of living in less than ten years," said the subcommittee, "should be sufficient incentive to give civil defense its rightful place in the defense system of the U.S. . . . We are confronted with the grim, brutal reality of the nuclear threat. An ostrichlike policy will not save American lives and property...
...show starts with a misty-eyed, reminiscent scene of pre-revolutionary Moscow-the small houses and crooked side streets of the Cheryomushki district, near Moscow University. But before this sentimentality can get out of hand, bulldozers move in. All the old decadence is demolished, and a modern housing development rises on the ruins. Construction workers sing at their jobs; new tenants arrive; all is youth and enthusiasm. Friendships grow and love blossoms...
...other postwar upturn, is picking up speed. Items:¶ Industrial production for July stood at 133 on the Federal Reserve's index, up three points since June and seven points higher than the recession low of 126 in April (see chart). At this rate, say economists, the pre-recession level of 145 in August 1957 may well be topped before year...