Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown is no political anomaly and he has contracted a good case of undulant presidential fever. Two Brown agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California...
Genius & Understanding. As an infantry officer, Lieut. Marshall got a fast start. Outdistancing even his West Point rivals, he made his first big mark in the Philippines (1913-16). His ability to plan and execute maneuvers struck Commanding General J. Franklin Bell as something barely short of miraculous. "Keep your eyes on George Marshall," Bell told his staff. "He is the greatest military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson...
...future even more of it will have to do so. And, add U.S. officials grimly, it had better not find its way back to European pockets quite so often as has been the case in the past. (An example that still gravels Washington: in recent years the West German government has underwritten some $2 billion worth of West German sales to underdeveloped countries at terms so stiff-repayment in four years, 6% or more interest-that time and again the U.S. has been obliged to bail out the overcommitted debtor with a dollar loan...
...Japan have agreed to join with the U.S. in setting up the new $1 billion International Development Association (TIME, Oct. 12). And last week, after asking his countrymen "whether we have the right to enjoy all to ourselves the steady annual increase of 6% in our national product," West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard proposed that his government review its system of foreign credits and "untie" them so that in the future underdeveloped countries would be free to use German credits for the purchase of non-German products. The U.S. could only welcome the offer, while noting wryly...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...