Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...other students of international law hold that in the age of hydrogen weapons, when nations can be devastated in a single strike, there is indisputable equity in the position taken by the U.S. Government; yet the Soviets could also claim the equal self-defensive right to shoot down any foreign-spy planes, since radarmen on the ground cannot distinguish an unarmed surveillance plane from a plane carrying a hydrogen bomb...
...simple tale in pidgin English wafted last week from the screen of one of Nigeria's 45 open-air cinemas. A commercial for Barclays Bank of England, written in the local "High Life" beat, the short cartoon has become so popular among West Africans that it vies for equal billing with ancient Tom Mix westerns and Charlie Chaplin slapsticks. It also pleases Barclays: savings accounts have almost quadrupled since it started showing the film. Says Barclays' Advertising Manager Kenneth J. Lashmar...
Such cold-war candor gave the U.S. a chance to discuss with equal candor the massive problem of getting adequate intelligence about the vast Communist nations. The Soviet dictatorship keeps its secrets-even from its own citizens-by the classic techniques of a police state. Travel is restricted, and foreigners off the beaten path are spied on. No news of even an air crash ever appears in the Soviet press unless the Kremlin wants it there; no stories of new weapons or defense plants are ever told by Moscow's radio commentators unless there is a propaganda motive. Secrecy...
...post as First Deputy Premier to become one of Khrushchev's top party aides. Early last year Khrushchev told Averell Harriman in Moscow that he regarded Kozlov as his successor. But Aleksei Kosygin, 56, named First Deputy Premier last week in Kozlov's place, has since won equal apostolic blessing for his work as head of Khrushchev's seven-year-plan. On tour in France last month, Khrushchev several times pointed to Planner Kosygin as "my successor...
...funds were far from agreement in how to view the market. After a survey of first-quarter portfolio changes by 42 leading investment companies. Wall Street's E. F. Hutton & Co. reported that some built up cash and bond holdings, while an equal number took the opposite position, bought heavily in common stocks. There was big buying in American Telephone & Telegraph, International Business Machines, Arkansas Louisiana Gas, Tampa Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox. Selling was heavy in such drug stocks as Chas, Pfizer, Merck, and Parke, Davis, following the unfavorable publicity of the Kefauver hearings...