Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small powers decided that they needed more time for their mediation efforts. To achieve delay, they asked both Russia and the West to "explain circumstantially" why the blockade had been imposed to begin with, and why the talks between the four military governors last summer had broken down. That had been already amply explained in the U.S. White Paper (TIME, Oct. 4). But the Western powers, who wanted to avoid any suspicion of railroading the small nations, politely agreed to answer...
...illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
WHDH will broadcast the contest starting at 1:45 p.m. Station WBZ-TV will begin its telecast at the same time...
...Sumner Slichter, John Dunlop, James Healy, Douglas Brown, Charles Myers, and Saul Wallen, all labor relations experts and impartial arbitrators, made this observation about referendum no. 6: ". . . The practical effect of this provision would be to cause union members to arm their representatives with a strike vote before negotiations begin. As a result, negotiations will tend to be conducted in an atmosphere of hostility and tension. A similar provisions in the War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) tended to cause strikes rather than prevent them...
...that future student campaigns do not take place under rules that are too little and too late, the Council and the Dean's Office should polish off the pending permanent "student bill of rights," containing specific rules for College groups. When the 1950 and 1952 battles begin, every campaigner should know where he stands--and where...