Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars prowled and reporters fretted. Inside, after some 60 other New York halls and hotels had refused them talking room, the top leadership of the U.S. Communist party-its "surface" membership down to about 8,500 from 80,000 in 1944-was holding its first national convention since 1950. Prime purpose of the four-day, closed-door session: to select a new national committee and to heal the three-way split in party ranks that had followed Moscow's "downgrading" of Stalin, its "upgrading" of Stalin, and the brutal intervention in Hungary...
Innocent Passage. When word of the U.S. offer flashed through Israel, citizens who had just paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending...
...those London dinners where white ties and tails and decorations are worn. The honored guest, NATO's new Supreme Commander. U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, heard himself felicitously toasted but also told in plain language by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "Insurance is a fine thing, but overinsurance can be debilitating . . . What the balance should be, under our democratic society, is a matter for statesmen responsible to their Parliaments and their people...
...Lewisham last week. It was the first seat to be won by Labor from the Tories in a by-election since 1939, the first seat to be lost in a by-election by a government since the war, and the first (and somewhat inauspicious) test of the popularity of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's six-week-old Conservative government...
This week there were signs that the push forward was stronger than many Japanese had realized. Since occupation's end many conservative groups have been agitating for the revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...