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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, refusing to abandon the town where he had spent his whole life, Max Kaufmann was eking out a precarious living from out-of-town customers for his trucking and taxi services. Bewildered and plaintive, he wails: "I stayed out of politics. I only told the truth...
...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
...spiriti, sometimes the gravely dignified Germont, making his moving plea to Violetta-Pura sic-come un angelo. In the most fascinating section of all, the old man launches into Violetta's famed Sempre libera, sounding hoarse, wildly off key, but somehow convincing in the aria's feverish abandon...
...potato, seeking to fix on the other fellow the public opprobrium for failing to agree. But that was not the atmosphere in last week's sessions. The West set out to relieve Soviet suspicions that inspection was not meant merely to pry into Soviet affairs. Russians could "abandon now" any hope that the West would lay down its arms without advance safeguards, said Eaton-but he was not thinking of "hordes of inspectors." Nor was the West unwilling to split up its package if agreement was possible on the most urgent problem, that of weapons in space. Eaton proposed...
...that this was not quite enough. Demanding a raise, grain trimmers' Local 1268 of the rugged International Longshoremen's Association marched out on an angry strike that stopped all grain exports from the world's biggest port. The shippers answered with a counterdemand: that the trimmers abandon their 30-year-old system of piecework pay, instead accept regular longshoremen's wages of $3.12 an hour, as they do at all other U.S. ports. The New York trimmers now get $14 and up for every 1,000 bushels of grain that are loaded-trimmed...