Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greece, whose ties with its NATO allies have been badly strained by the conflict over Cyprus, should have offered Shepilov ideally troubled waters in which to fish. On the Cyprus issue, however, his hands were tied by Russian reluctance to offend Turkey. (The Montreux Convention, which gives the U.S.S.R. access to the Dardanelles, expires this year.) Otherwise, Shepilov had little to offer the Greeks except the conventional invitation to Moscow-an invitation which Greece's staunchly pro-American Premier Karamanlis was in no hurry to snap...
...Access to Ike. The cost of a rented Cadillac in New York City or the daily bill for the apartment suite overlooking Central Park was of no more concern to McDonald than it would be to the steel executives he had recently left. The steelworkers' union, with 1,200,000 members spread across the U.S., each paying $3 in monthly dues, has like other unions moved into the realm of big business itself. Since the U.S.W. is one of the most highly centralized major labor organizations in the U.S., its $40,000-a-year president wields more authority than...
...years, all these questions should lead up to the central theme of the school: "Where do we as a people want to go?" The student might learn about art by exploring topics such as: Should radio and TV be owned by the state so as to provide more access to the fine arts? He learns about chemistry by analyzing "patent medicines or radio-advertised foods to test the reliability of commercial claims." As for arithmetic, "a whole unit . . . could be planned around a consumer cooperative or even around running a school store on cooperative principles...
...remarkable episode in the history of Ike's party problems is part of a remarkable book* by the New York Herald Tribune's veteran White House Correspondent Robert Donovan, which became public this week. Tapped by the Administration to write its first history, Newsman Donovan had free access (see PRESS) to superprivate (but nonclassified) papers. Donovan's product, although it deals principally with the unsensational, everyday affairs of state, type-sets both the headlines and the footnotes of the Eisenhower Administration, and is certain to start political horns honking across...
...North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington...