Word: biddinger
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At Renard's bidding, the strikers persisted. Although the Flemish north now was quiet and mostly back at work, the rest of Belgium remained racked with strife. The Cabinet met and decided to order 2,000 more troops back from their NATO garrisons in Germany to help guard factories...
To the big cow barn in Buenos Aires' Rural Association fairground last week flocked the elite of Argentina: society women in Paris gowns, high-booted cattle ranchers, pin-striped nouveaux riches. On a raised runway in the middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the...
The government-sponsored auction was held to pay for this year's 150th anniversary celebration of Argentina's independence from Spain, but the bidders were not driven by overpowering patriotism. New imported cars, particularly those big shiny Detroit wagons, are almost impossible to get in austerity-conscious Argentina...
Wisps from the Pipe. The hassle was an old story to the U.N. staff in Leéopoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah'...
THE weather was dreary and drizzling one morning last week as 500 people filed into the silent Ackermann plant of the Wheeling Steel Corp. in Wheeling, W. Va. The men were not workers arriving for the morning shift but guests at a funeral. They came to bid at an auction...