Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
...present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
There are signs of trouble in the top leadership. Grizzled General Kassem is no man to be taken for another Naguib. After the July revolution his right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged...
South Africa's white men do not start paying taxes until they are 21, and half pay no taxes at all if they earn less than $420 a year. But to Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, it was merely a matter of "morality." In the next five years $140 million would be needed for native schooling. The natives should pay for it. "What," cried Verwoerd, "would satisfy the highest demands of morality? Would it be to spoon-feed the natives constantly, allowing them to be beggars who go on their knees to the white man? All they have...
...MILLION CONTRACT will go to International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., picked as prime contractor for worldwide communications net for Strategic Air Command...