Word: brink
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...mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence while Congress tried to decide who won. For a rundown of the week's loud bangs and smoldering fuses, see THE HEMISPHERE...
Menderes is gambling that he can create an industrialized Turkey in a matter of years without quite slipping over the brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been...
...soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs") O'Keefe, stoolie suspect in Boston's Brink's holdup case, flubbed the job as wounded O'Keefe lived to tell all (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956), but made a daring escape from Boston's Charles Street Jail, hid out at Folly Beach, S.C. until in 1955 the law closed...
...will have to ask Congress to lift the present $275 billion limit on the national debt. Increased military expenditures, decreased revenues and difficulty in cutting back nonmilitary spending have made the request all but inevitable. Said a White House aide last week: "We're right at the brink-you'll pardon the expression-of going over the debt limit. We're within a very small margin now, and have a very small cash balance." Treasury Secretary Anderson has assured congressional finance committeemen that he can hold out until Congress reconvenes next month. Capitol Hill, in turn, believes...
...then, the U.S. on the brink of war? asked a reporter. Dulles made no effort to pull back from this gibe at what his critics like to call his policy of brinkmanship. "If anybody studies history they will find that the world has been always on the brink of war. The great reason why we have had so many wars is that people take it for granted that there isn't going to be any war. They get complacent and do not make the necessary efforts to avoid war. It's only by being conscious of the fact...