Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point: on the familiar cry of colonialism, the Greeks had vainly hoped for support from the Afro-Asian powers. Every day that the Cyprus quarrel dragged on added to the strength of the Communist-lining opposition to Karamanlis within Greece...
Though no friend of the welfare state ("Socialism has so battened down the hatches that the passengers have forgotten how to breathe"), he was the philosopher of more enlightened conservatism, which he developed in a series of able party pamphlets. He threw his support behind social security, gave needed protection to individuals facing tribunals, fought for aliens' right to live permanently in Britain, has been the champion of an up-to-date censorship law. After Suez, when Harold Macmillan was chosen instead of him to succeed Eden at 10 Downing Street, Butler remarked: "Well, it is something to have...
...time, but the Brombergers' book adds many details. From Algiers, swashbuckling General Jacques Massu was prepared to move on Paris with 1,500 paratroopers-to be flown over in planes supplied from France by a senior air force officer. Other generals in France had promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling to take responsibility for plunging France into civil war, General Ely resigned as Chief of Staff rather than issue an order...
...deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...
Alumni. "Most colleges are at their wits' end to find something, aside from financial support, which can worthily occupy the time and energy of intelligent alumni. To put it harshly, the support and good will of the alumni may not in itself mean much to an institution, but its absence can hurt. If there is not an apparent, active, or even noisy alumni support for a school, that fact will have to be explained to legislators, donors, parents and even prospective students...