Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...might lose no opportunity to prove what vigilant protectors they are of new African nations, almost certainly had no intention of making good on their talk of armed intervention in the Congo. The situation was a diplomat's kind of crisis: nothing so flamboyant as war was in prospect, but the times required skilled diplomacy so that a new, unready but proud nation could get off to the right kind of start...
...crew that dominated the 1956 games in Melbourne (8 of 13 gold medals for men and women combined). And then there are the Japanese, who dominated Olympic men's swimming in the 1930s and are only now beginning to regain their prewar form with a crack team. In prospect is a glorious Roman water carnival...
...year business by deception and coercion (TIME, April 11), Dancer Arthur Murray cha-chaed his way out of the jam, hardly stubbing his toes. He agreed last week to an FTC consent order "to cease and desist" the practices, thus avoided a tough day in court and the prospect of even more damaging publicity. In exchange, the FTC closed its case...
...this added up to a cheerful second-half prospect, in the eyes of Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Said Alexander: "With the consumer buying as he is, and with inventories worked down further, I think there is a good chance for an improvement this fall, and that we may avoid turning in the direction of recession...
Under this plan, much of the canceled Cuban allotment went to Mexico (whose share of the U.S. market climbed from 95,000 tons to 345,940 tons) and Brazil (up from no share of the U.S. market to 100,347 tons). Both nations were overjoyed at the prospect but did not want to say so aloud, since many of their workers and peasants still consider Castro a bearded Robin Hood, boldly defying the U.S. Mexico's official rationalization is that Mexico, after all, began asking for an increased sugar quota long before the Cuba-U.S. crisis began...