Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held press conferences, appeared on television shows, enjoyed publication of his biography and his collected 1956 campaign speeches. At intervals, he thumped away at the man who beat him twice-and at some politicians in his own party. Stevenson openly disapproved of the civil rights compromise approved by Presidential Prospect Lyndon Johnson, snorted loudly at the independence and interdependence scheme for Algeria advanced by Presidential Prospect John Kennedy...
...Coming." Significantly, the issue on which Knowland chose to hit hardest was labor policy. Goodie Knight has announced that he would refuse to sign any right-to-work bill in deference to California's large and politically powerful labor forces, who mortally hate and fear the prospect of the open shop. Last week Knowland not only called for "a just and equitable right-to-work law" but went a strong step farther. Said he: "The time may soon be coming when Congress may have to apply the same antitrust laws to the big unions as it does to corporations...
...projects spread by the acre, but building for the urban middle-income group has stopped almost entirely. Such families are often forced to settle for poor housing or pay rents -way above 25% of income-which they cannot afford. Said the Senate Committee on Banking: "Housing available or in prospect for families in the middle-income group is wholly inadequate...
...shadow of the heavily Chinese crown colony of Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done...
...Prospect: a strong resolution in the U.N. condemning French intransigence. The U.S. has not yet made up its mind how to vote...