Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Filling the Gap. The strategic targeting plan stands as the newest monument to a reserved and dedicated man who, combining outer velvet with inner iron, has proved to be one of the ablest and most valuable officials in the Eisenhower Administration. In the five-sided Penta gon, where most questions have more than five conflicting sides, just about everybody agrees that Tom Gates has been the most successful Defense Secretary since the late James Forrestal (1947-49). Georgia's crusty Congressman Carl Vinson. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a frequent Pentagon critic, flatly calls Gates...
...self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps contain reserves of perhaps...
...Cuba's economy, weapons may be all Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S. sugar bonus, Economic Czar "Che" Guevara flew behind the Iron Curtain last month for help to avert economic disaster. Czechoslovakia agreed to double its aid, bringing the total to $40 million. But estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year to replace income lost by severing its U.S. trade ties...
High Standards. They also attract early bloomers: 63% of current freshmen at St. Paul's Macalester were in the upper 5% of their high school classes; 20 are National Merit Scholars. Missouri's West minster, where Winston Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946, boasts that not one of its recommended graduates has been turned down at a medical school of his choice for three decades...
...pith helmet. Cool, alert, with nerves of steel, one senses immediately that he is a man to be trusted. And small wonder, for he is. But he was not always so. Once there was a time when he was harried and driven by a domineering tutor and an iron system which kept him from becoming the man he potentially was. Now look at him. Pit him against the jungle. Match him with University Hall...