Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic policy to counter the new Soviet offensive. With President Eisenhower back in charge, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went abroad in an attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer to speed work in that field, and had pledged not only to fight aggression and subversion but also...
...night Kefauver was scheduled to speak at St. Mary's College in Winona, 120 miles southeast of Minneapolis. His chartered plane was grounded by bad weather. After long and heated debate among Kefauver's advisers (during which one of them bitterly suggested that they "call Winona and tell 'em to go home and vote for Stevenson"), it was decided that Estes should drive. He was game, but the roads were icy. Two hours later, just as he should have been handclasping his way into the St. Mary's auditorium, Kefauver was barely halfway there. At last...
...dynamic leadership, that the West has lost the initiative to the Kremlin. There is a serious threat of war in the Middle East that could become another Korea; substantial Soviet gains in South Asia while America's relations with that area decline daily; loss of Cambodia in Southeast Asia to neutralism; serious setbacks to pro-Western Chancellor Adenauer in West Germany; alarming support in Greece for a Communist-backed political coalition; revolutions in our own backyard, in Brazil and Peru...
...acre six years ago now costs $2,000 or more. Davis has spent at least $2,000,000 on a tomato farm, millions more on four plant nurseries, including the world's largest orchid and house plant producer. He operates the biggest ice cream plant in the Southeast, runs three dairies, owns a big slice of a freight airline (Riddle...
Similar questions have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...