Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short," wrote the New York Times Military Correspondent (and Annapolis-man) Hanson Baldwin, "some sections . . . believe that the carrier is no longer the queen of the seas and that the missile submarine is the future capital ship of the world's fleets." Baldwin added a sailor's salty appraisal that "the carrier is still useful but less so than in the past...
...Sweden Tage Erlander's Socialists, who have dominated Swedish politics for 25 years, returned to power with a limited mandate. The nation's 4,000,000 ballots were split evenly for and against them. Socialists gained six seats but fell short of a majority in the 231-seat lower house, will still need the help of the minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election showed...
...delighted with the Brazilian leader's frankness-so much so that he short-circuited the usual channels in answering such a letter, sat down and wrote out his own reply. Probable result: a gathering of the hemisphere's Foreign Ministers to hash out mutual headaches-plus an enthusiastic O.K. for a Dulles trip to Rio late this summer. Even as Ike wrote, the U.S. was preparing to end its isolation from one of Latin America's biggest problems-coffee booms and busts (see below). And at week's end Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State...
...Political Wheeler-and-Dealer Harry Truman, arriving in France for a short vacation, for once in his life refused to discuss politics with waiting newsmen, modestly placed himself in the scheme of things: "I'm just a simple retired farmer from Missouri...
...future as to whether the President's ideas lead in his mind to University policies that will be-4This visit to President Pusey in Massachusetts Hall by a group of prominent members of the Faculty clearly emphasized that the recent "religious controversy" involved a conflict much deeper than a short, hot squabble over the use of Memorial Church...