Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these schemes had no hope of adoption; others had little short-run relevance to the political ferment in the Middle East. ("When the principal personalities in a government are living in daily fear of murder and assassination," noted Secretary of State Dulles last week, "it is very hard...
Unwanted Volunteers. Was Nasser still worried that next time Moscow might send him unwanted "Moslem volunteers," Communist troops he would have a hard time getting rid of? The onrush of events had momentarily been stalled, but agitation everywhere continued, and nothing had been solved. Jordan was one sign of the...
Some Lebanese Christians feared that the rebels might get their way, and Premier Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination earlier in the week (see below), angrily threatened to resign. Yet in the face of popular pressure for peace, and the fact that President Nasser seemed willing to settle for Chehab...
What drives Sam Newhouse is the urge to expand, and last week word leaked out that he was chasing one of the brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has...
Where does the U.S. economy go from here? On C.E.D.'s charts a major booster out of the 1949 and 1954 recessions was the turnabout in inventories. In the 1949 recession businessmen continued to liquidate inventories for more than a year, in 1953-54 for 15 months, before any...