Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEP by step, ever since the Suez crisis, U.S. diplomacy has been on a forced march toward a program of order in the Middle East. Each step offered its special hazards, each week its seemingly paralyzing "What if ...?" Last week, as the Middle East crisis seemed to be heading for a settlement, the question was: "What if Israel refuses to get out of Gaza?" To forestall such a refusal, the President and the State Department engaged in the most serious diplomacy of the winter. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, What If . . .? As for the larger-looming question-"What if Russia decides...
...Middle East resolution (see below), a Senate committee, echoing the President and the House of Representatives, replied: If the victim calls for help, the U.S. will fight. With that aggression-deterring answer shielding the Middle East, Dulles & Co. can go on dealing with lesser What Ifs-and inching toward the goal of order...
...grip tightened under each of my arms, and I felt my toes dragging toward the door...
...staging department, the present Ring is freighted with virtually the same visual improbabilities that burdened it in the past. Ponderous gods and goddesses lumbered clumsily toward one another across the gigantic stage. Papier-mâché dragons belched steam, dwarfs disappeared in clouds of vapor, magic fires raced across the sky at the wave of a wand. For reasons of economy, the Met made no effort to replace the worn sets originally designed and constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses...
Foote has no definite plans yet, but says: "I lean toward my own business or a piece of a medium-size agency." No stranger to change, Maverick Foote in 1948 startled Madison Avenue by giving up American Tobacco's $12 million account-the fattest ever voluntarily relinquished-over a policy disagreement with its management, two years later left Foote, Cone & Belding, which he had helped found, and in 1951 joined McCann-Erickson...