Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notion that the issue is one that cannot be compromised. Meantime, the package they hope to sell is one prepared by Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since it is up to him to enforce the law. So vital a role do civil rights and the Dawson line play in Democratic strategy that in New York last week Adlai Stevenson made a Dawson-like pitch the theme of a Waldorf-Astoria fund-raising dinner (net result: $140,000) that attracted such civil-rights stalwarts as Eleanor Roosevelt, New York...
PERHAPS the most significant of the Russians' points was the appeal for British help towards improving Soviet relations with the U.S. It was phrased with characteristic dexterity. It was flattering and complimentary to Britain, implying that here was a vital task which Britain alone could undertake. It also insinuated that the Soviet government was most anxious to be on better terms with the U.S., even if the American Government did not entirely share its feelings. The British should be able to, take up the appeal with the warmest satisfaction-and without any loss of Anglo-American accord...
...They are confident that plenty of copper dollars, from new investment and current near-record prices (45? a lb.) plus a $75 million currency stabilization loan from the U.S., will bolster the peso. And to hold the price line against changeover shocks, the government gave temporary direct subsidies for vital imported goods, and raised living allowances under the social-security system for 3,000,000 rotos...
...role provides, ostensibly, multilateral economic assistance, rather than the unilateral type of Point-Four or Marshall Plan aid. As such, it will be more palatable to the recipients of the aid. It contributes to that spirit of willing cooperation and mutual self-help between non-Soviet nations which is vital to free-world cohesion. In its new role NATO would accent multilateral, inter-regional economic assistance rather than attempt to defend absolutely the indefensible land mass of Western Europe. This should go far to better political and economic relations between the NATO states and other non-Soviet nations...
...Force finally signed a truce. The Air Force made a movie (hero: Delbert Kinsel) to be shown at his drive-in. From the screen he welcomes his patrons, reminds them that they are just across the road from one of the nation's most vital Air Force bases, and points out that each time a jet passes overhead it means that the U.S. Air Force is on guard. He also suggests that by tuning up their carside loudspeakers patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble. Air Force brass will watch the experiment closely...