Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neared, there was a sudden realization by the Saarlanders that they would lose many of the social benefits they had enjoyed under the French welfare state. Though it could be argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free...
...Political Army. Diaz Lanz's charge is backed by a growing pile of evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
Bermuda businessmen, long reluctant to jeopardize revenue from discrimination-prone U.S. tourists, last week let down most of the island's social color bars. Top hotels-Belmont Manor. Castle Harbour, Princess, Elbow Beach. Inverurie, St. George-announced their intention "to accept reservations for dining, dancing and entertainment from local residents without discrimination," and to allow visiting (but not resident) Negroes in rooms. Most smaller hotels, nightclubs and restaurants followed suit; movie theaters abandoned segregated seating. Bermuda's 28,000 Negroes (in a population of 45,000) won their new gains through a boycott of movie houses. White Bermudians...
...gains of industrialization-"the base of our social hope"-are still being scorned by Western intellectuals. And the West's pure scientists have been just as "dimwitted" toward its productive engineers: "Their instinct . . . was to take it for granted that applied science was an occupation for second-rate minds...
...SOCIAL SECURITY FUND will run $87 million in red for fiscal year, which began July 1. Higher social security taxes, which went into effect last Jan. 1, are expected to boost fund's income over outgo, starting in 1961; fund's $1.5 billion deficit, accumulated over past three years, is scheduled to be repaid...