Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal of Communism as an alternative way of life has shrunk to nearly zero, and once-strong Communist parties have dwindled to shrill slivers. U.S. styles of living have spread around the world; even behind the Iron Curtain, teen-agers imitate their U.S. counterparts in dress and musical tastes...
...closed with the Comet at more than 1,000 m.p.h., whooshed past little more than a jet's-breadth above the airliner. The Queen and Prince Philip were unaware of their close call, but not so one of the copilots, who later growled: "And they had damn great iron crosses beneath their wings." From West Germany's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss came "deep regrets," a promise to punish the culprits-"if, in fact, German aircraft were involved...
Castro's strategy was simple: with access to U.S. suppliers cut off, trade ties to Canada would be preserved as a means of getting some of the embargoed parts and materials needed to keep Cuba's U.S.-oriented economy going until it could switch to Iron Curtain suppliers. For their own reasons, Canada's government and businessmen were willing to go along-at least for the moment. Said the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Diefenbaker's statement has served notice to the world that Canadian trade policy is not made in Washington." As for the businessmen, President...
...years, the crusade set up 1,200 mission centers in schools, warehouses, private homes, even in tents. Arrangements were made for round-the-clock prayers, meetings, processions and celebrations, for visits to hospitals, asylums, orphanages, slums and schools. Missionary priests from other Latin lands, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Iron Curtain countries traveled to Argentina to help...
National Review is bossed by a brilliant young man who has all his life carried a torch as if it were a branding iron for what he calls conservatism. Bill Buckley is the son of a man who built a $100 million empire in Latin American oil. From his weaning, Buckley was immersed in conservative doctrine. At age six, Bill wrote an angry letter to King George V, demanding that England pay its war debt. As a Yale undergraduate, he advised the U.S. State Department to deliver an ultimatum to Russia: Either hold free elections in Czechoslovakia-or else...