Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic tide slapped hard against Republican pilings 18 months ago when Democrats won slender control of Congress while Dwight Eisenhower swept to his re-election victory. It swirled and eddied ominously when traditionally Republican, Midwestern Wisconsin sent Democrat William Proxmire to the Senate ten months ago to fill the late Joe McCarthy's seat, and again last month when more Democrats turned out in the Ohio primaries than at any time in the last 20 years. Last week it surged unmistakably across politically powerful California, the G.O.P.'s last outpost on the West Coast. In the popularity-poll...
Tension-easing notes in Moscow and
Washington last week:
Only five months ago President Eisenhower sent the 1959 budget to Congress, and it showed a slender surplus of $500 million. Last week Budget Director Maurice H. Stans guardedly forecast a 1959 deficit "in the general magnitude of $8 billion-$10 billion, according to present tentative estimates." But Washington skeptics see more realism in the red-ink estimate issued by the staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: a dizzying $11.1 billion. And even the Joint Committee's forecast may err on the cheerful side. It assumes...
When Russia sent the first man-made earth satellite into orbit last October, said Mahon during debate on the $38 billion defense appropriation, "we became aroused, humiliated, angry, frustrated and determined. Now the anger has cooled and the determination has been blunted." From a "peak of awareness and urgency," the U.S. has backslid to ''the humdrum plane of complacency." And complacency is dangerous. "The Soviet threat to our pre-eminence in industry, science and military striking power is steadily increasing. We have long been accustomed to think of the U.S. as occupying an unchallenged and unchallengeable position...
Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...