Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...
...governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson last week got some travel orders from President Eisenhower. Wrote Ike: "The time has now come for us to consider, together with the other members of these two agencies, how we can better equip them for the tasks of the decade ahead." Anderson's orders: support increases in member-nation contributions to the bank and the fund. In addition, he was ordered to open negotiations toward establishing a third fund subscribed to by bank members and known as the International Development Association...
...possibility considered by planemakers: subsidiaries that would sell, lease and re-equip the planes. Some foreign lines that have ordered jets as a matter of prestige may find themselves too short of dollars, may have to settle for DC-7s and Constellations...
...Meal to Digest. Europeans, even when awarding the Russians a victory, for the most part treated the whole subject as a game to be scored. West Germany's Socialists, busy agitating against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to equip the West German army with atomic weapons, saw the Russian announcement as another defeat for the U.S.'s "unwieldy foreign policy." Some British editorialists were convinced that Russia had outsmarted the West, and that Dulles' statement that the U.S. had considered renouncing tests itself just made matters worse. "A boxer who has just received a crisp...
After four days of frenetic debate, the Bundestag voted to equip the West German army with nuclear weapons. But far from silencing the ban-the-bomb hoopla, the decision only stirred up a whole new series of eruptions...