Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week some results of the polls that poll-minded Jack Kennedy referred to in the TV debates leaked out to the press (the Eisenhower Administration refused to release them). If taken at face value, they confirmed Kennedy's contention that U.S. prestige has declined. Taken for the purpose of guiding U.S. Information Agency policies, the polls were designed to measure public opinion about the relative power of the U.S. and Russia. Prevailing opinion, as developed by the pollsters: Russia is ahead of the U.S. Polls taken shortly after the collapse of the summit meeting last May showed...
...barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him. The more he campaigned, the more he seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind...
...Alignment. In Leopoldville, Western officials and diplomats were frankly bewildered at the strange turn of events. Best guess was that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was reacting to new and compelling pressures. In the face of Nikita Khrushchev's attack in the General Assembly, the new African nations had rallied to the defense of the U.N. and Hammarskjold himself. But the 70-0 Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba...
Surrounded by a flock of wazirs (councilors) everywhere he went, he blessed thousands of faithful followers, who fought to touch his hand and besieged him with requests. The visitor listened gravely, kept three secretaries busy handling his replies. For the 20 million members of the Ismaili Moslem sect face challenging times, and their new Imam was determined to lead them well. "All that really matters for me is my work.'' says 23-year-old Karim Aga Khan. "All the rest is tripe...
...Princeton, the varsity will face a high-scoring, determined squad, Lineman Lew van Amerongen leads a high-powered attack, and captain Jim Wickenden lends strong support, Jim Hicks, a towering forward, is another accomplished scorer and playmaker...