Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Tilt. Do alliances then no longer matter? In general terms, the U.S. would like to keep decisively on its side those nations which border the vast Communist heartland and which present the first barrier against Red seepage. Those nations are most threatened, and their fate is most crucial to the free world. Said the Philippines' Chief Delegate Francisco Delgado: "We cannot all be neutrals. Some of us have to perform the unpleasant and even dangerous duty of helping to keep the scales of power in equilibrium. The moment these scales are badly tilted one way or the other...
...France have been content to rest their atomic monopoly on the prohibitive cost and inordinate difficulty of building the monster gaseous-diffusion plants and plutonium-yielding reactors in which they carry out large-scale production of fissionable materials. Now the West German scientific breakthrough appears to have smashed that barrier and opened the way to atoms for anybody with the technologists competent to handle them...
...been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier to decisive and constructive action...
...estate at Glen Cove, Long Island). The reason, explained the State Department, was that security precautions could not be guaranteed in the light of the bitterness toward Khrushchev which had grown so monumental since his first visit. There was bound to be a dispute over the travel barrier ("Nonsense, just nonsense," Eleanor Roosevelt called it), as Khrushchev himself was bound to make propaganda...
Independent India is discovering social problems undreamed of in Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy. As the caste system and the traditional Hindu family begin to crumble, the barrier between the sexes in India is no longer the formidable fence it used to be. Last week in Agra-where India's two most famous lovers, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, lie buried under the Taj Mahal-the Indian Youth Association held a solemn seminar about a new kind of problem: the sidewalk dalliance that Indian youth calls "Eve-teasing...