Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considerably more substantive than his press conference was the work on the budget and State of the Union continuing behind closed White House doors. Shaping up were legislative proposals for a labor bill tougher than the Kennedy-Ives measure, which was defeated in the House this year, and for a civil rights bill, probably aimed at enabling the Justice Department to intervene directly in civil rights cases (Democratic liberals helped knock a similar proposal out of the 1957 civil rights bill...
...inconspicuous. But Western eyes saw the sandy-haired little man snapping his fingers to summon a Soviet ambassador during B. and K.'s visit to India (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955). When he appeared in Britain in 1956 to prepare security measures there for the touring pair, the British press denounced him so vehemently as "Ivan the Terrible" and "Butcher Serov" that he was left behind on the actual tour...
...seven years of Washington night school and in his government career has had more to do with budgets than with diplomacy, Assistant Secretary Rountree had never run into such calumnies in his life. "You know the mild gentleman he is," said State Department Spokesman Lincoln White at a Washington press conference...
...against Communist pressure. Nasser himself seemed wholly unimpressed by the conciliatory moves the U.S. has recently made towards him-releasing $26 million in blocked funds, reviving the CARE relief program in Egypt, resuming the $13.5 million U.S.-Egyptian rural improvement service, leasing dredges for the Suez Canal. His press remains pathologically hostile to the U.S. But Nasser told Columnist Joseph Alsop last week: "Now is the time to normalize relations between my country...
...hundreds of islands and 80 million people-moves into its tenth year of independence, its existence remains precarious. Some 10,000 rebels still infest the outer islands. In Sumatra 14 rubber plantations have been put to the torch in a single month. The gold backing for the printing-press currency is down to 7.85%, although the legal minimum is supposed to be 20%. Factories and industrial plants are operating at scarcely 60% of capacity because foreign exchange is lacking for raw materials and spare parts...