Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally sent Von Braun's younger brother, Magnus, bicycling downhill to invite the Americans to come and capture Peenemünde's top rocketmen. (Says Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke the best English, and I was the most expendable.") The U.S. Army was delighted to accept that invitation and, in a project known as Operation Paperclip, selected Von Braun and 120 of his best team members to go to the U.S. under contract with the Army to build rockets...
...outright merger. Nasser, who not only shared their misgivings but saw a chance to regain the Arab world leadership lost by his ignominious Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel, set one big condition. He demanded that the Syrians agree to dissolve all parties in the merger, and accept a single Nasserite National Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed. The Communists apparently did not dare object. It remained to be seen whether the Syrian Communists would be forced underground like Egypt's. "No Communist Party has ever dissolved itself before," said Party...
Their reasoning: increased productivity is not due primarily to labor but to capital, i.e., improved machines and methods; relative to the whole economy, labor's contribution has actually diminished. The basic point is easier to accept than the statistics K. & A. attach to it: they flatly claim that workers in the U.S. account for less than 10% of the wealth produced, while capital instruments account for more than 90%. To K. & A., this means expropriation of capital as unjust in its way as the exploitation of labor was in "primitive" 19th century capitalism...
Labor leaders, who grudgingly accepted Secretary Mitchell's program in December as the most lenient they could hope for, crossed their fingers last week and hoped that the nation's preoccupation with defense might take off the heat. Labor would cheerfully accept public reports on all pension and welfare funds (including employer-managed funds), would like legislation to stop right there if public opinion would stand for it. Still to come: the final report and recommendations of Arkansan John McClellan's Senate investigating subcommittee, which may well be tougher than Ike's proposals, may well step...
...Union of South Africa. They included Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Dutch Reformed and "soldiers" of the Salvation Army. The ten days they spent together aired out many a mind that had been shut up in tribal parochialism. Said Anglican Archdeacon Erisa K. Masaba: "We in Uganda don't accept the Christians from our neighboring territory of Kenya as real Christians. For me it is a surprise to see members of different churches worshiping together here, and from now on I'm going to look at the Kenya Christians as just the same as ourselves...