Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give the lie to Soviet propaganda that the NATO allies are nothing but U.S. satellites. "If Premier Menderes of Turkey were taken ill," said one delegate, "we could hardly postpone the meeting. Nor can we decently do so because of President Eisenhower's illness...
...much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter David Siqueiros made the chief oration, larding it with Communist mouthings. "Even here," cried one of Rivera's daughters, Guadalupe, "you make your propaganda!" "Yes," Siqueiros answered. "Just as Diego...
...Waiting List. Though they were carefully conditioned by Arab propaganda to believe that they were suffering wretchedly at the hands of "Imperialists and Zionists" the refugees gradually found themselves better off materially than they had been at home. They have a higher daily caloric ration (1,500-1.600) than some of the fellahin in Nasser's Egypt, better health and sanitation services than they had ever known in Palestine. UNRWA provides extra rations for pregnant and nursing women, midday meals and vitamin pills for children. UNRWA's education facilities are making the refugees an intellectual elite among Arabs...
...conclusion: the Russians tend to concentrate money and manpower on a few programs in applied science (e.g., Sputniks) that promise spectacular results and will be valuable as propaganda. Speaking for his own field only, he thinks they are behind the U.S. in basic, theoretical physics, the kind of work that produces practical results years from now. Their nuclear physics labs are not as good as U.S. labs and lack the fancier kinds of equipment...
...Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...