Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," you may know the plot A middle-aged baseball fan sells his soul to the devil in order to become a young sports hero and rescues the Washington Senators from their perennial losses. The fan reserve the right to cancel the bargain on one particular midnight in the fall. From there on, it is a contest between the devil, a Mr. Applegate, and the retreaded slugger. Having pushed out a host of good songs in the first act, Ross and Adler go home about half an hour before the musical ends...
Politics v. Propriety. Last December, Labor Secretary James Mitchell came out flatly against "right to work" laws, which, he said, "make it impossible for an employer to bargain collectively with a majority of his employees about the security of his union." President Eisenhower said that that was Mitchell's opinion, which he had a right to express. Ike expressed no opinion of his own, except that the proprieties of state v. federal authority in that area present a "dilemma...
...recognition could be used to bargain with Red China, to unite the Western Alliance, and to reassure neutral Asian nations--in short, if sending diplomats to Peiping would help to case tensions in the Far East without sacrificing legitimate strategic interests of the United States, it seems surprising that Washington has not extended recognition before this. One of the chief objection has always been that the American public would not accept it. If President Eisenhower prepares the people slowly his great popularity can surely make the eventual diplomatic move acceptable. Other objections have been advanced, but none seems to survive...
Asked a reporter at President Eisenhower's press conference last week: Was the great thermonuclear explosion in mid-Pacific last year a "bargain basement U-bomb''-a sort of "super H-bomb with a jacket of natural-state uranium that gave it greater power at less cost?" The President replied that he did not think he should attempt to answer the question (and the White House clipped both question and reply out of the television coverage), passed the matter to AEC Chairman Strauss, who refused to comment. But the whole exchange whetted new curiosity about...
...What discipline!" says Charles-Hubert (papa) when he sees a Wehrmacht brass band. "After all, they're human beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels...