Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Start Toward Stability. In proclaiming that the "independence and integrity" of Jordan are "vital," the U.S. had helped to save the day. Yet it is not Jordan's meaningless borders, its desert wastes, its desolate economy, or its restless population that are "vital" to the U.S. What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which...
...point Nasser was adamant: the canal would be run exclusively by Nasser's Suez Canal authority, with no advice from anyone. But after weeks of talk in Cairo between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company...
...admirals' stars, in all), and kept a weather eye out to sea. Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their make-believe destruction, nine waves of landing craft chugged toward the beach, bringing 3,500 U.S. Marines. Operation Carib-Ex was under...
...Europe aboard the S.S. United States, Elsa Maxwell made overtures of peace toward the Duchess of Windsor, with whom she has been feuding for the past three years. Said Elsa at this moment in history: "I once wrote the duchess that we were both strong personalities, and almost a law unto ourselves." Meeting history and the inner law, Elsa sent a conciliatory note to the duchess. The duchess responded by inviting Elsa to cocktails in her shipboard suite. Said Elsa, "She was charming; she can be very charming. The duke is always charming...
...make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford Theater, but Bette's vehicle, Footnote on a Doll, was far too rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape, A Man's Game, went a long way toward scotching the prevailing theory that baseball can be successfully dramatized. As a lady pitcher. Nanette Fabray tossed the ball as girls always do and gave a valiant imitation of a musicomedy actress behaving as if she were in a great show. She wasn...