Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Elder, who had expressed hope for accomodations for 500 families, has greeted the Program's plan with "much good hope" as a start toward alleviating the problem which, as he says, "demands drastic remedies and quick ones."DEAN ELDER...
Across the pampas, tractors towed combines out of the fields. Twenty million liters of wine mellowed in gigantic oak casks in western Mendoza. Off toward Cape Horn, coats thickened on 19 million sheep. In the subtropical north, the machetes of the cane cutters flashed...
Serious obstacles complicated Kishi's mission. As one Singhalese put it on the eve of his arrival in Colombo: "We remain wary of Japan's superiority complex toward other Asians." As for India, it is unhappy ovep the way Japan is selling cheap copies of Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature...
...Eugenio Aramburu, 54, a two-star general. His lot has been an economic migraine headache compounded by unending plots against him and dismaying political anxieties. Because he is unexcitable and firm, he has not only survived for 18 months but has also turned his nation around and faced it toward political and economic revival. Even more notably, he has made an articulate, reiterated, unequivocal promise to liquidate his own regime as well as Peron's, and give the government back to elected civilians...
Lawrence also attacks the press for its attitude toward the House's $38 million slash in the U.S. Information Agency budget-a reduction that was handled with complacency at best, and vociferously cheered in some segments of the press, notably the Scripps-Howard chain, which has a vested interest in killing U.S. overseas information operations. Reason: the Scripps-Howard papers and the United Press are parts of the same company; U.P. fears that USIA's free distribution of U.S. Government news abroad cuts into its profits from the sale of news to foreign newspapers. Blaming the press...