Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party duty to run for Governor against brass-lunged Democrat Paul Dever. Herter protested angrily: he liked his job and his prospects on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, did not much care to give it up for a long-shot chance at an office that he did not really want. But in the end he agreed to run. Boston bookmakers gave odds as long as 10 to 3 against...
...willing to sell (e.g., tinned salmon), the British are unwilling to buy. Britain already imports more from the Russians than it sells to them. Besides, Khrushchev made plain, he is interested in East-West trade only "provided that credits are extended us," and if the British do not want trade that badly, "we shall not take umbrage...
...Nath Maini, Uganda's Minister of Corporations and Regional Communications. Says he: "I know perfectly well that to take office under the British administration means to take the political kiss of death. But what's the alternative? Integration? This 'We-demand-no-special-rights, we-just-want-to-be-brown-Africans' attitude won't get us anywhere. The Syrians tried it in Ghana, and now they are being squeezed dry and flung out. We can come to terms with the African, but only if we hold a bargaining position-only if he can see that...
...Sunday afternoon, Castro laid wreaths on the monuments to Lincoln and Jefferson, noted that Jefferson "understood what revolutions should do." On NBC's Meet the Press, he sweated his way past a few sharp questions. (How soon elections? "Not more than four years. The people don't want elections.") Then he rushed off to the deserted Capitol for a two-hour session with Vice President Nixon. After another week, in New York, Canada and Houston, Castro will fly back to Havana, where he has always found Yankee-baiting the easy way to please the crowds...
...Clipper. Get my hat. I want my hat back...