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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan's Hussein can and does thank the U.S. for the continued existence of his tiny, beleaguered Middle East kingdom, now shored up by the U.S. at a rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said...
...long-swirling debate about how to achieve prosperity without inflation is the fact that since recession-shadowed early 1958 the U.S. economy has sensationally achieved just that (see chart). Last week Administration officials reported that the U.S.'s gross national product added up to an alltime record rate of $464 billion a year in the first quarter of 1959-a hefty $37 billion above the first quarter...
Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...mayor, 35-year-old Jerzy Zielinski, admits that Poland's western territories lag behind East Germany in reconstruction, but points out that "at the end of the war not one of the 56 bridges leading into the city was still standing. Today we have the highest birth rate in Poland. We have built eight schools in the past year and are working on nine more." Like Jendza and Zielinski, most key men in the western territories are astonishingly young; more than half the population is under...
...corpse and sort out the suspects. Despite this essentially sad preoccupation, he is pure comedian with a mimic's malice, a gent's outfitter's eye for the socially off-base, and an eavesdropper's avidity for the give-away phrase. Wilson is a first-rate caricaturist whose stature increases as he diminishes others...