Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night on Long Island, and Mrs. George Fisher Baker was entertaining. The Duchess of Windsor was the guest of honor, and Mrs. Baker had invited 58 guests-the clabbered creme of New York society-to dine with the duchess and join in the quickening whirl of a new social season. Among Mrs. Baker's glittering guests none were more striking than young William Woodward Jr., 35, the millionaire sportsman, and his wife...
...would be quite unrealistic to bring about the unification of Germany through a mechanical merger . . . at the expense of the social achievements of the working people of the German democratic republic."-We are not going to expose the East German Communists to the embarrass ment of free elections. We know they would lose...
...years later, King George was looking for special equerries to help him keep in closer touch with the armed services. In an earlier day. the post might have gone to some eligible lordling, but Britain's social-minded King wanted to reward merit rather than mere birth, and Townsend's name was sent him. Wearing his best uniform, the young airman went to see the King. King George liked him from the first, and after 30 minutes of chat, he was taken on. As the King and the airman left the royal study in Buckingham Palace, they...
...government's internal debt, largely borrowings from social-security funds, stands at 70 billion pesos ($3.8 billion...
...however, times were changing. A Democrat was about to be elected President, several gigantic "Houses" were rising near the river thanks to a Yale man's largesse, and even the Faculty recognized that social regulations at the College could not remain frozen forever. The authorities easily agreed that the chaperone rule should go. But they had a hard time deciding how to replace it. For a while they toyed with the idea that not less than two women could visit in a student's room at one time--the "safety in numbers" philosophy--but this was eventually-dropped. Finally, after...