Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Combat Poverty. "To help the Arab countries fulfill their aspirations," the President proposed a regional economic development institution, "governed by the Arab states themselves," to which other countries would contribute money and technical assistance. If the Arab countries agree to set up such an institution and "support it with their own resources, the U.S. would also be prepared to support it" (with perhaps $100 million a year, said Administration spokesmen...
...President offered no specific formulas for carrying out any of these points, but this vagueness was deliberate: it would take long and patient consultation with other delegations to work out formulas that a majority of the U.N.'s members would support-and that the Arab countries would accept. Only on point five did the President elaborate. A regional development program, he said, might make it possible to solve the Middle East's "great common shortage-water." With mid-century advances in water technology (see SCIENCE), the "ancient problem of water is on the threshold of solution. Energy, determination...
Ellington ran as "an old-fashioned segregationist" with Clement's support, promised to close any integrated schools in case of violence. In a four-man, winner-take-all primary, Ellington's band snatched a last-minute victory from Memphis' Gore-like Reform Mayor Edmund Orgill, after rednecks blanketed rural West Tennessee with pictures of Orgill talking with Negro "friends during N.A.A.C.P. organizational meeting" (actually, he was talking to a nonpartisan civic-improvement group). Additional point for sign readers to note: victorious Segregationist Ellington and more rabid Candidate Andrew T. Taylor between them rolled...
...leader is Félix Houphouet-Boigny, sophisticated mayor of the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan and a minister of state in De Gaulle's Cabinet. Says he: "We don't want independence. My neighbor Nkrumah in Ghana is independent, and as a result must support an army which is very expensive. Who is really independent, anyway...
Ackerman will immediately close several of the 133 rental stations that Genet opened, many of them in small cities that cannot support them. To jack up the company, he will also promote package tours, charter service and express delivery. But his tour is limited; he must step out on his 65th birthday-in November of 1959-unless the board scraps Greyhound's mandatory retirement rule...