Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German reunification. Both sides would encourage more contacts between West Germany and East Germany; the West would not recognize East Germany before genuine reunification but might be willing to deal with East German officials as Russian "agents." If the Russians agreed to a reunification plan, said Herter, the problem of Berlin, the natural capital, would solve itself. If they did not, the West would keep its troops in Berlin, although it might be willing to negotiate on some measure of United Nations supervision...
...idea began with Dan G. Allen, a limerock dealer, who gradually became aware that "the colored population was moving our way. They have to have some place to go." Allen discussed the problem last month with neighbors and city officials, got the cooperation of Negro leaders and of Real Estate Broker Kenneth Harris, who handled all the sales contracts (average selling price: $9,500) at a reduced commission. Better yet, the Negroes have good prospects for expansion: Pinehurst Courts faces onto a 300-acre undeveloped tract, ready for building...
Converting Iraq into a satellite poses a serious economic problem: though the West could get along without Iraqi oil, Iraq could scarcely get along without Western markets for its oil unless Russia were prepared to buy it-and Russia has no real use for it. Yet should Moscow, because of these political and economic difficulties, order the Iraqi Communists to stop short of an all-out takeover, there is danger that the volatile Iraqi mob, which loves nothing so much as a winner, would begin to turn away from its Red heroes just as it has turned away from Nasser...
Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
...this connection it is useful that the protagonist, although paunchy and past his prime, is possibly the biggest man with the girls south of Memphis. Also that the two fully developed female characters are nymphomaniacs allows for frequent relaxations from the business of capturing the statehouse. The only problem with all this is that it imposes the necessity of building up to greater and greater exploits and more improbable melodrama. With the first seduction on the green-felted conference table of the county judge, the difficulty arises of where to go next...