Word: record
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Army General Maxwell Taylor, 57, completing a four-year tour, as Chief of Staff, will retire. Best bet to replace Taylor: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 59, Vice Chief of Staff, like Taylor a paratrooper and holder of a lustrous field record in World War II and Korea, trusted friend of Dwight Eisenhower since serving as Ike's assistant chief of staff for the North African campaign...
...Good War Record." West Germans also enjoy two other competitive advantages. One is the aggressive trade policies of their own government. To help foster West German exports, the Federal Republic sponsors an insurance organization called Hermes, which offers exporters a guarantee against default by their customers. Thanks to Hermes (which has so far committed $600 million to underwriting Mideastern deals alone), West German businessmen can often offer credit to customers whom other Western businessmen must pass up as bad risks. Sometimes the Bonn government steps in directly to help. West Germany is about to give the Greek government $150 million...
Behind Charles de Gaulle's decision to grant Ely such sweeping authority lay one of the great continuing struggles of France's Fifth Republic. When De Gaulle took office last June, some of his critics, disregarding the record of his previous self-restraint in power, freely predicted that he would soon be dictator of France. Nine months later De Gaulle is still waging a cautious and complicated campaign to win full mastery over the very force that sparked his return to power-the French army...
...base of Ecuador's boom is a ten-year record of political stability, starting with Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador...
...League competition Dartmouth leads with a 5-0 record, with Yale second at 4-2 and Harvard third at 3-1. Chances are better than even that the Crimson will tie for first place, or if the Indians bow to Yale, win the title. W L T Clarkson 7 1 1 Dartmouth 9 3 0 St. Lawr. 9 3 0 Bost. Coll...