Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bigger voice for farmers in federal farm programs. Kennedy said that the "soil conservation" program should be "administered at the local level by local farmers.'' Nixon promised to set up a farmer council to "advise the President on farm programs...
...Only recently returned from Europe, dogged Secretary Benson is scheduled to set off in mid-October on a tour of South America, in a sort of exile from the presidential campaign...
...Blow. Nikita Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...
Friendly Advice. Convinced that Europe cannot be defended without the U.S., his fellow Common Marketeers are particularly appalled by De Gaulle's implied intention to set up Europe as a rival, instead of a partner, to the U.S. The British dislike his obvious determination to exclude Britain from his European confederation. More simply, many Europeans feel that De Gaulle's dreams of grandeur for France, or even for Europe as a whole, are a century out of date...
...despite the cost of the most imposing set of welfare services in the world, Swedes are rich and getting richer. They own more cars per capita than any country in Europe. The Conservatives gamely demanded that both taxes and pensions be slashed. The Liberals could bring themselves to demand only tax cuts; social benefits, they said, should be left untouched. "You can have either left-hand or right-hand traffic in a country," said Socialist Premier Tage Erlander, whose country is the last in continental Europe where traffic still follows the British custom and keeps left. "Whoever insists on driving...