Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Huge crowds and deafening ovations, and particularly the strong, unequivocally political speech by Ike in Philadelphia, gave the Nixon camp fresh buoyancy, just when it seemed to be in some despair over the Kennedy bandwagon talk. The Nixon camp also set great store by the promised triumphal parade of Ike, Nixon and Lodge through New York City this week, and hopefully proclaimed that Kennedy had "peaked" too soon...
...France last week men talked darkly about The Plot. Conservative Le Figaro described it as an attempt to paralyze "the action of the Chief of State in order to set up an 'activist' government by means of extreme right-wing groups." Leftist France Observateur talked of the "rapidly deteriorating" political situation and the "increasing impotence" of the regime, saw the day approaching when "the army can intervene as an arbiter to prevent 'civil war' " between right and left. The most dangerous plot is that which is prepared in the open...
...three years ago, the Aga Khan's principal job has been dispensing largess. Inevitably, he must turn down far more requests than he grants. In Pakistan, he inaugurated a housing project as a step toward his goal of "a house for every Ismaili family." At Punjab University, he set up five scholarships abroad, but he rejected a student demand for a $500,000 contribution: "Not a chance...
Hammarskjold is known to feel that the entire success of the U.N. in the Congo depends on maintaining solid Afro-Asian support. And by virtue of last month's U.N. resolution, Africans will soon get an even larger voice in Congo affairs. A clause in the resolution set up a special "conciliation committee" made up largely of Africans, who soon will fly to the Congo. Was Hammarskjold anticipating that they would settle on Lumumba? Western diplomats could only guess. But the words and actions of Hammarskjold's men in the Congo clearly indicated that new instructions had crossed...
...missions have been in Singapore discussing ways to provide the $110 million outside help needed to complete Lee's $330 million, five-year plan to turn Singapore into an industrial outpost to rival Hong Kong. Labeling Communists "the ultimate enemy," Lee has shaken up trade union leadership, set up an arbitration court to cut down on strikes...