Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Amid the oompah and the hoopla that made for good box office, both major parties had reached down deep to their roots to explain themselves. By challenging the past and the future, they brought both into better focus. By searching their souls and summoning their followers to sacrifices, the politicos-in some wondrous alchemy of the tired convention process-had provoked the nation into contemplation of its character, its purpose and its goals...
Faubus played on the voters' pocketbooks, hogged credit in hour-long harangues for everything from widows' pensions to new factories to higher teachers' pay. His opponents, avowed segregationists all, blamed "Faubusism" for the greatest flight of people from any state in the past decade, but Faubus expertly used the formula of paternalism and social welfare that long spelled success for Louisiana's late Huey ("Kingfish") Long. His victory, said the Arkansas Gazette dolefully, meant "the emergence of one political figure to dominate the state's politics as it has never been dominated before...
...Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends $8 annually on cosmetics. The British teen-ager was traditionally a purposefully plain miss, encased in wool-jumper uniform topped by a straw boater, who was supposed to be interested only in her pony. Now she starts powdering...
...year ago, there were only 15 Congolese with university degrees. In contrast, 15,000 Africans from the French colonies have received degrees from French universities in the past ten years, form a vital cadre of teachers, doctors, engineers and bankers necessary to the development of the new republics. Said a French government official with pride: "There can be no comparison between French and Belgian policies in Africa. They were diametrically opposed. Compared to the Belgian Congo, French Africa is overdeveloped...
...past five years, eight dictators have been overthrown and replaced by democratically elected governments. But in many Latin American nations, democracy has not yet satisfied man's craving for enough food for his family, a decent house, an education and medicine. A month ago Latin Americans cheered the announcement from the summer White House at Newport that the U.S. at long last was ready to start a big program of loans for social needs. A high-level team of U.S. loan experts arrived in Peru almost immediately to sign a $2,000,000 U.S. housing loan...