Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat. Out of the blue, Soviet Ambassador Nikita Ryzhov sought an audience with Foreign Minister Feridun Erkin, confronted him with a blunt demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. missiles and NATO installations in Turkey. Premier Ismet Inonu himself drafted the note of rejection. Next Ryzhov arrived with a second, blunter ultimatum: Withdraw the U.S. bases or the Soviet Union will put Turkey's cities first on the list for annihilation if war comes. "If you don't think we are ready to make war over Cuba, you are mistaken," added Ryzhov. Reportedly, Premier Inonu's response...
...disputed the claim of instant crisis. "In fact," said Pearson, "the present emergency began to develop early this year." Social Credit's Réal Caouette, the funny-money oiator who led his créditistes to a surprising 26 seats in French-Canadian Quebec, put it in blunter fashion. "Diefenbaker knew it months ago; for the campaign, he was hiding those things," he said. "He ought to resign." Diefenbaker indicated that he would not call Parliament into session until September, so that noisy debates would not worsen the crisis. Opposition leaders might grumble, but they knew that...
...admen condemn the FTC out of hand. Says Fairfax Cone, chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding: "The industry cannot police itself; it never could. The FTC is reaching for more authority to do what it is supposed to do." Even blunter is Dr. Max Geller, president of New York's Weiss & Geller agency, who says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure...
Gromyko talked last week about "Austria-type" neutrality for Laos, a phrase that does not make much sense when applied to so primitive a land, but sounds soothing to the British and French. The Chinese are blunter. Marshal Chen demanded "a unified, independent" Laos and did not mention neutrality at all. Obviously, Chen was delighted to hang around indefinitely, flaunting China's power in an area where the West was in disarray. One possible clue was in the length of the lease he took on a fleet of 20 cars. Expiration date: November...
...like capitalism. We have as much right to protest over the existence of a capitalist-imperialist regime 90 miles off our coast as he feels he has to protest over the existence of a socialist regime 90 miles off his coast." How about democracy? Castro made his disdain blunter than he had before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call immediate elections. "Do we need elections?" Castro demanded of the crowd below him. Obediently...