Word: informants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please inform that fathead (doesn't rhyme with anything) of yours that the Tigers of Detroit are still in the American League. Possibly he will find out for himself in September...
...Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left, he had written a letter designating who should take over his duties as Premier and Minister of Defense. Israel...
...next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia, things were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with...
Hope for the Best. With so much to do in so short a time, a little confusion was inevitable, but the Franco regime has a special talent for it. Though the whole world knew about the devaluation of the new peseta, the government forgot to inform its own foreign-exchange institute, which tells the banks what to do. Furthermore, many prominent businessmen and politicians, including the Minister of Industry himself, have gone on record as opposed to the program, and while the government austerity drive against monopolies sounds fine on the surface, it excludes those that really count-the monopolies...
Disciplined Support. Plotters can count on no broad base for revolt. Peasants in the back country are apathetic or mildly progovernment. They eagerly inform on armed rebels for a $1,000-a-head reward. Workers in the towns-25% of the population-have a paternalistic labor code, a 20?-an-hour minimum wage, good housing, medical care-and a healthy fear of the dictator's police...