Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third departing scholar is Rocco Montano, visiting Lecturer in Italian, whose single-term appointment also ends this month. Montano, who taught two-thirds of the Italian literature courses offered this year, will return to teach in Italy...
...date these military expenditures have been lumped confusingly and often misleadingly into the overall term and the overall financing of "foreign aid." President Eisenhower now wants these military items charged, as they should be charged, to the annual budget of the Defense Department. Estimated cost: $2.8 billion...
Economic Aid. The new program offers long-term aid on a loan basis to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a Development Loan Fund, to replace former handout-style grants, through which the U.S. will be able to channel $500 million in fiscal 1958 and $750 million in both fiscal 1959 and 1960 into basic foreign-growth projects such as roads, dams, utilities, "the sinews of economic strength...
...execution was carried out with the utmost consideration for the victim, for in his term in office schoolmasterly Guy Mollet had won national popularity. "We cannot give you our confidence without betraying our voters," apologized Farmer Deputy Joseph Cadic. Mollet caught the drift, sighed: "Oh well, 'twill be an amusing end. After overthrowing us, people will come to tell us how much they really like us and how courageous we have been...
...with the fanatic right. Thus, unlike some of the Neanderthals he admires, e.g., Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, Wisconsin's late Senator Joe McCarthy, Lawrence is a realist in world affairs; he has vigorously supported the League of Nations, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, long-term foreign...