Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded Trotskyite group, which is now called the "mainstream faction." Mainstreamers are so far out politically that they consider Khrushchev a "traitor" to the proletariat. As a result, Communist students are considered "moderates" by the Japanese press in contrast with the club-swinging mainstreamers. But it was the Communist "moderates" who besieged Hagerty's car at the airport...
...Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston; Nashville, Tenn.; Winston-Salem and Salisbury, N.C.-have suffered no financial hurt. Said the report : "No store in the South which has opened its lunch counters to Negroes has reported a loss of business. Managers have reported business as usual or noted an increase. In contrast, reports from the change-resistant towns have indicated that business in some variety stores-key targets of the demonstrators-has fallen off by from 15% to as much as 65% in one store in Charlotte...
...plain-spoken letter that prompted visiting President Eisenhower to invite him and six of his friends to see the U.S. for themselves, Chilean University Student Patricio Fernández drew a bitter contrast. He compared the failure of the U.S. to finance the economic development of Latin America with "the initiative of the U.S. and its immense sacrifices in Europe-the Marshall Plan." Last week, as the Chileans finished their tour of the U.S., they made it plain that they had come, seen and not been conquered...
Wherever Nikita Khrushchev went last week, he had a shadow. Whether it was Paris, Berlin or Moscow, there at Nikita's elbow was the hulking, impassive Ukrainian, whose short-cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...
...good reason for the shift. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production, mirroring the nation's total factory output, held level at 109 in April. Personal income rose to a new high of $397.5 billion in April, jumping $3.5 billion for the month, in contrast to an average monthly gain so far this year of only $600 million. Paced by Chrysler and General Motors, auto production last week hit a three-month high of 156-578 cars-pushing total 1960 production above 3,000,000-17% ahead...