Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Look, a Capitalist!" The West, he snorted, was insisting on free elections in the two Germanys, "but we point out that there are more people in West Germany and that therefore they would win." For Khrushchev, this seemed to settle the matter of free elections. It was this sort of...
Over their port and cigars in London, parliamentarians and barristers were impressed by the efficiency and economy of the ombudsman system. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan promised to give the matter "careful" study. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell concurred. But other M.P.s were quick to point out that the ombudsman system...
Black Gold. The effects of American aid to Libya are everywhere: the desert is beginning to bloom under U.S. irrigation engineers in places such as Wadi Caam, barren since the Roman aqueducts crumbled away. Last year the U.S. built 37 schools and equipped five teachers' training colleges (the nation...
The brain behind the big b.o. caper is Joseph E. (for Edward) Levine, 53, a onetime Boston newsboy who beat his way out of the slums by chasing a rapid dollar with indiscriminate energy. Salesman, shopkeeper, restaurantman, driving instructor, art-theater owner-Levine tried them all. Then he drifted into...
The achievement does not seem impressive mainly because it is far from enough to keep the Garden going. "It's all rundown now," mourned one of the maids last week, "but it's still got a lot of what you'd call dignity. The same people keep...