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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspecting Nixon's Boeing 707 jet, Khrushchev said he would like to visit the U.S. "when the time is ripe." In Geneva, where the Big Four foreign ministers' conference sputtered toward a stalemated end, word leaked that the U.S. had sounded out its allies on inviting Khrushchev and found them in favor...
Three hundred miles to the southeast, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, workers from Kona coffee plantations and leather-faced cowboys from the Parker Ranch headed toward the polling places to mark, their ballots. On Kauai and the Big Island, and on each of the other luxuriant, diamondlike islands of the chain, the people of Hawaii were casting their votes in the first major election since Congress enacted the statehood bill last March. Never before had such a pageant launched an American state. To the polling places came men in bright aloha shirts and slacks, women in cotton-print Western...
Particularly impressive are Michael Wager's Malcolm and Lee Richardson's Ross. In his big colloquy with Macduff, Wager speaks with clarity, conviction, and nice rhythm. And, since Malcolm is the last person to speak in the play, it is good to have someone in the role who excels in classical diction. Richardson brings a force and earnestness that make his Thane of Ross the best of the dozen or so I have seen...
...industry's leader: "Our earnings are pretty large. I guess they could come out at a better time. But we are taking it like good sports, proud to have done so well. Even after wage-cost push, depreciation, wasteful practices and such, we still have an awfully big hunk of dough left over...
...covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president of a major U.S. railway: "We could solve all our financial problems if we had no featherbedding." One big reason for the high cost of U.S. houses is that carpenters resist using prefabricated panels, painters resist automatic sprayers (sometimes by demanding double wages), and bricklayers and plasterers sometimes set minuscule production quotas. From the job-short 1930s to 1956, a University of Michigan study found, the efficiency of U.S. construction...