Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand and the Philippines found themselves in a dispute over internal "liberation" movements. Since Thailand now finds herself threatened by the same kind of "inside job" as Indo-China was, she wanted guarantees against subversion. The Philippines wished to avoid any definition that would require her to help a colonial power quell a genuine nationalist movement. The U.S. wanted to protect the southern tier of Asian states-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Philippines wanted to defend only treaty signers and challenged the right of France to sign for the three independent states of Indo-China...
Conditions of Survival. "We of the free world should avoid panic and provocation . . . We should be 'trigger-ready' without being 'trigger-happy' . . . The kind of coexistence with Communism which I have been describing is not. of course, 'peaceful,' in the sense that it is founded on friendship and cooperation. It is hardly more than mutual toleration...
CONRAD HILTON, who bought out the ten Statler hotels (for $8,000,000 down, $70 million on credit) only last month, will soon sell them to private investors and insurance companies, lease them back to operate. Hilton, who wants to avoid issuing more Hilton stock to finance his purchase, will retain full operational control...
Many workers look with suspicion on company recreation, say that they would rather get the extra money in their paychecks. To avoid the company stamp, many a corporation works out ways to let employees finance their own programs. A sizable share of the money often comes from plant vending-machine profits (about $100,000 a year for the Convair Recreation Association). Another way to remove the stigma of paternalism is to let workers run the program. At Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. the employee recreation corporation has only three management members on the 15-man board...
...jack rabbit's getaway, shown in slow motion that reveals the jazz-beat leg action he uses to avoid tight places...