Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high time. Things have been standing still in Iraq, in uneasy tension between the Communists and the conservatives. Though oil flowing to Western markets still brings Iraq royalties at the rate of $230 million a year, Kassem's 16-month-old revolution has done little to better the Iraqis' lot. Farmers, unsure whether the government will go through with land reform, have cut back on their planting. Eggs have tripled in price, rice costs 50% more, and wheat has become so scarce that authorities had to import 45,000 tons from Turkey two months ago to meet...
...what had gone wrong: "Some time ago, the U.S. sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done a better job of arousing neutralist Indonesia against Red China...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...Metropolitan Opera likes to keep one or two operettas in its repertory, if only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...
...American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity of it all. CBS has reiterated its own notion of responsibility-without having done anything noteworthy about more balanced programing, either-convinced that its function as broadcaster should not be parceled out to committees, however eminent their members...