Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...very much moved by your Oct. 31 story of Mark Higgins and his death in the Congo. He did a brave and wonderful thing in refusing to accept the "set pattern" by choosing to work in Africa with Missionary Albert Schweitzer...
Treasury Secretary Anderson saw three years ago that if the gold outflow kept up it would endanger the stability of the dollar. He set out on a soft-spoken crusade to help right the U.S. balance of payments by persuading prosperous Western Europe and Japan to 1) lower trade barriers against U.S. goods and 2) take on a bigger share of the burdens of defending the free world and aiding the underdeveloped countries. This week, in pursuit of these goals, Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon are scheduled to meet with top West German officials in Bonn...
...Navy harbors little doubt about the ability of Polaris crews to stand the gaff. The ten officers and 90 enlisted men on each ship are all products of a probing, prying selection system modeled after the officer-procurement methods set up by the uncompromising perfectionist who is the most influential man in the U.S. nuclear Navy: Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover...
From Washington this week two grimly determined men set out for Europe bent on keeping friends-but saving U.S. gold and dollars. To strengthen their sales pitch, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon had a potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last...
...Tunis a rebel spokesman said flatly: "We will have nothing to do with a truncated puppet state. We have made this point of view abundantly clear." In Algiers, Europeans crowding bars and cafes spoke freely of mass insurrection should De Gaulle seriously try to set up a Moslem Deputy Commissioner. Rumors spread that the police, in the event of an uprising, would throw a cordon around the city and starve it into submission. Sneered an ultra leader: "De Gaulle wants to turn Algiers into a second Budapest...