Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most dramatic change of fiscal heart last week was in West Germany. On the eve of the Anderson-Dillon visit, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer abruptly cut his country's cackle about being short of spare cash: his Cabinet hastily announced "complete agreement" to launch West Germany's first real foreign-aid program in 1961. Under the projected billion-dollar program, Germany will at last make available to the capital-hungry underdeveloped nations a significant hunk of the record $7.4 billion gold and hard-currency reserves accumulated during the spectacular German economic comeback...
...chance have $460 tucked away in your pocketbook or wallet or lying around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...
...Chia-kang arrived in Leopoldville last July to visit the new Patrice Lumumba government, he found an eager ally in Communist-leaning Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes, to gain allies for Peking's struggle...
...Song of Coffee. In Bolivia, the Czech embassy distributes Peking's propaganda and possibly cash, and the head of the Bolivia's Miners Union is now en route home from China, sending back to local papers a series of flowery articles of praise. Brazil is a major target, and hundreds of prominent Brazilian leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech...
...years as attorney general under his election victim, Democratic Governor George Docking. Liberal by Kansas G.O.P. standards (he favors repeal of the state's right-to-work laws), Anderson had to beat out his party's choice for the nomination in a primary. Major campaign promise: more cash for state schools...