Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What if the Russians reject the West's package? The British, believing that something will still have to be done about Berlin, suggested that the U.N. might be called in. In a speech to Copenhagen students last week, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold carefully warned that "practical considerations alone" would prevent the U.N. from taking upon itself "administrative tasks which require political decisions." The U.S. is willing to add some sort of U.N. presence in Berlin, but nothing that weakens the West's right to have its own troops there...
Long Scoffers. Nehru's lashing out at the Communists, after years of a kind of neutralism that often had harsh words for the West but muted its displeasure with the Communists (and even publicly underwrote Peking's "peace-loving" intentions), won him cheers in the Assembly. Congress Party President Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was tougher. Speaking in Kerala, the only Red-ruled state in India, she flatly declared that "Communism and democracy are incompatible-they are opposite." For the first time, there is widespread discussion of the threat posed to India by the armed might...
Having been allowed to tour remote Siberia for two weeks, the New York Times's Moscow Correspondent Max Frankel, 29, wrote so straightaway a report, drawing sympathetic parallels between the winning of the Soviet East and the American West, that the Communist newspaper Izvestia reprinted his first article complete...
...warmth of spring, the Mercedes, BMWs and Opels streaming along the Autobahnen have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...
Fourteen years after the war, his nation restored to world councils, his society surprisingly stable and democratic, the German no longer lives just to work; he works to live-and to forget the grim existence before 1948, the year West Germany's struggling economy was remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then...