Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene was a little overdramatic, but then, dictators must take no chances. The man whisked out of Portugal to asylum in Brazil was Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's biggest problem-Humberto Delgado, a balding Portuguese general-turned-politician, who had spent the past three months in petulant, self-imposed exile in Brazil's Lisbon embassy. Running for the ceremonial office of President last year against a candidate backed by Salazar, in a land where the press is not free and Salazar's men count the votes, Delgado polled almost one-fourth of the votes...
...stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient is unwilling to see or unwilling to admit that as yet his drinking is a problem...
...actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main problem is accepting a doctor's diagnosis: alcoholism...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...
Died. Don Black, 41, Cleveland pitcher who overcame a career-crippling drinking problem by joining Alcoholics Anonymous, within months (1947 season) threw a no-hitter against the Athletics, next year twisted his neck while batting and suffered a hemorrhage that ended his playing days; of lung cancer; in Akron...