Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looming up with the speed of light. On that day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to be in Paris for the unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government, an outgrowth of the ringing call for NATO "interdependence" in defense and scientific research, issued by the President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur of policy sessions, press conferences, meetings with NATO...
LONDON, Nov. 28--Prime Minister Macmillan disclosed to Parliament today a British pledge to send no more arms to Tunisia without consulting the French. However, he did not rule out more arms for the former French protectorate...
...brilliant southpass, whose 21 victories were a prime factor in Milwaukee's first National League pennant, received all but one of the votes of the 16-man panel of baseball writers who participated in the annual poll. The other vote went to Dick Donovan, of Quincy, Mass., the Chicago White Sox' big righthander...
...PRIME financial question confronting the Administration is whether or not Congress should be asked to increase the national debt limit beyond its present $275 billion ceiling. The federal debt last week stood at $273,351,797,516.09, only $1.7 billion under the legal ceiling and with seven months still to go in fiscal 1958. The Treasury steadfastly maintains that it can squeeze by under the ceiling. But many Administration economists doubt it. They argue that the debt limit must be raised, not only so that the U.S. can go on paying its bills, but also because the $275 billion ceiling...
Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...