Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq is everything, the Lebanon nothing . . . The cold war, remember, has been nothing more nor less than an unremitting Soviet effort to upset the world balance of power . . . The balance of power in turn depends upon the outcome in the Middle East. And in the present circumstances, the outcome in the Middle East depends upon the outcome in Iraq. Most of the reasons for not taking action [in Iraq] are mere twaddle-Hammarskjold-twaddle, world opinion-twaddle, other kinds of twaddle...
...Britain for help. Two days after the U.S. Marine landings in Lebanon, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons of Hussein's urgent message: "Jordan is faced with an imminent attempt by the United Arab Republic to create internal disorder and to overthrow the present regime." According to British intelligence, said Macmillan, Hussein was to have been assassinated that very afternoon...
Were they content with the present level of U.S. investment, did they want more, did they want less or none? In every city except Caracas, where U.S. investment had become identified with Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez before his overthrow, the vote for more investment outweighed the have-enoughs and the lessor-nones. As for economic aid, only in Mexico City did a majority feel that the U.S. was sending enough; elsewhere more than 57% thought...
Despite the gloomy present, network executives profess to see only full screens and coffers for next fall. "If we were in a depression instead of a recession, our posture might be different," says NBC's Don Durgin, vice president in charge of sales. "We fully expect to be sold out when the fall season begins." Insists ABC Vice President Don Coyle: "By October, there's no doubt that we'll be all locked up." Then he makes a finger-crossing addition: "Of course, you're never locked up until you're locked...
...machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums, to pick up speed again. Many companies, particularly in heavy industries, can be expected to examine their present capacity with an eye to future contingencies, dust off expansion plans they had previously deferred during the recession...