Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians' jet-fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando...
...other hand, was determined to dramatize its concern over Syria. The U.S. embassy in Amman put on a big propaganda campaign about the airlift of U.S. arms to Jordan. This may have reassured some, but it led other Arabs to conclude that the big powers were shifting their cold war to the Middle East and developing a tit-for-tat buildup that was bound to lead to a dramatic showdown...
...world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was at Khrushchev's side, exchanging a steady stream of cronies' chatter, occasionally prompting in stage whispers, never hesitating to set his bouncy colleague right on the propaganda rails. For like it or not, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, 61, was doomed to the limelight. He is the only one of the handful of top Soviet Communists to have bet the right way in last June's command showdown between Khrushchev and the old guard...
...Whether his eye is fixed on a plant or a planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took...
...entire male population of the Casbah, the French have never managed to dominate its inner fastnesses. Last week they announced proudly that the trick had been done. Helped by hooded native informers, the French claim to have arrested the top men in FLN's justice, medical, propaganda and intelligence sections in Algiers. All are under 30. Last week French paratroopers found the trail of two of FLN's top terrorists-Mourad, 27, a mechanic turned bombmaker, and Ramel, 26, a 250-lb. onetime Zouave in the French army, who plotted rebel forays from the Casbah...