Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...experts claimed that West German aid abroad in 1959 amounted to $820 million. But the claim is more impressive than the reality. The Germans include in the total their contributions and their profitable loans to the World Bank. Also included is the "cost" of sales abroad under Bonn's short-term credit plan that gives guarantees to German firms selling in hard-up areas of the world; in many cases, struggling small nations operating under this system repaid the Germans with dollars granted them under U.S. aid programs, adding further to West Germany's currency reserves. Actually, West Germany last...
...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...
Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...this atmosphere of disintegration and defiance, De Gaulle delivered a short, powerful broadcast. He proclaimed a new course in Algeria: "This course no longer leads to an Algeria governed by Metropolitan France, but to an Algerian Algeria- an Algeria that will have its own government, its institutions, and its laws." If the new Algeria chose to break with France, "we would certainly not persist in remaining by force alongside people who would reject...
...weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about the same height (5 ft. 6 in.), with small bones and an unweathered complexion, Lerner is 42 and could pass for a graduate student. Both men are intensely ambitious for the critical success of their work...