Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only announce his choice at the convention itself next year. He called himself "Adlai's friend," but added that at 64, Harriman was not too old for the presidency. Next day in Albany, Truman joined Harriman at a reception for 150 party leaders and their wives. In the vast, flag-draped Albany armory, the mass of party hopefuls were given box lunches, armloads of campaign materials, and later speeches by De Sapio, Harriman and Truman. No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall. Biggest: Harriman and Truman...
...others-what they call 'neutrality.' By this they mean that each nation should have the weakness which is inevitable when each depends on itself alone. But the Soviet rulers practice, for themselves, something very different from what they thus preach to others. They have forged a vast domain. The Soviet bloc represents an amalgamation of about 900 million people normally constituting more than 20 distinct national groups. [In view of this] the United States does not believe in practicing neutrality. Barring exceptional cases, neutrality today is an obsolete conception. It is like asking each community to forgo...
When spare, grey Herb Prochnow speaks conversationally, his low voice can barely he heard over the humming of the air-conditioning units in the vast First National Bank building. Yet he is one of Chicago's most popular speakers. Besides The Toastmaster's Handbook, he has written The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest, The Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms, The Speaker's Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, and 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches.* Some Prochnow advice: "Do not overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story...
...including even some of Nehru's ministers. The Second Five-Year Plan is under a heavy barrage of fire. Mahalanobis, critics found, had underestimated the cost of needed new railroad mileage by a whopping $1.4 billion. Industries Minister Krishnamachari, bemoaning the dearth of skills in India's vast untrained manpower pool, despaired of attaining the plan's steel production goals. "Finding personnel for the new steel plants," he said, "looks like a superhuman task...
Widespread among Latin American businessmen and government officials is the wistful notion that the Soviet Union and its satellites offer a vast and profitable export market. On paper at least, trade between the Latin lands and the Reds is indeed on the rise. In effect between various Latin American and Communist-bloc countries are a score of bilateral trade pacts calling for exchange of an estimated $500 million worth of goods in 1955-an imposing total considering that Latino-Red trade in 1953 amounted to only $70 million. But some flinty U.S. Government figures made public last week indicate that...