Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loyalty oaths are now required of recipients of aid under both the National Defense Education Act and the National Science Foundation Act, which was passed at the height of the McCarthy scare when educators were too timid to protest such obnoxious provisions. The 86th Congress, which is scheduled to consider new educational aid legislation anyway, would do well to remove loyalty restrictions from both bills. Rather than aids to education, loyalty oaths are purposeless and dangerous hindrances to the spirit of the legislation containing them...
AUGUST: QUEMOY. When Red China's Mao Tse-tung conferred in Peking with Khrushchev, began bombarding the Chinese Nationalist offshore island of Quemoy, attempted in a U.S. congressional election year to scare off the U.S. with hair-raising war threats, the U.S. warned Red China that it intended to meet force with force (TIME, Dec. 29). Result: Red China backed down in a crushing loss of face, fired its army chief of staff. Year's score in Asia: Red China lost great face...
...health scare actually lit up sales by causing smokers fo switch to filters. As the Agriculture Department says, "Some persons smoke filter-tip cigarettes at a higher rate than they smoked non-filter tips." Last year filters' share of the domestic market increased from 39.9% to 45.9% as consumption rose by 35.8 billion smokes...
...rounds per day for five days, again held back airpower. On Aug. 29 the Communists kicked off their propaganda onslaught by warning the free world that landing is imminent," warned the Quemoy garrison "to withdraw." Then, two days later, the Communists made a big-and unanticipated-move to scare the U.S. out of involvement in Quemoy. The Kremlin warned the U.S. that the U.S.S.R. intended to give Red China "necessary moral and material aid in the just struggle for the liberation of Formosa" and that "any aggression by the U.S. in the Far East will . . . lead to spreading...
...West Berlin's big Kaufhaus des Westens, scare buying tapered off after a few days ; citizens jammed the Kurfürstendamm's fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...