Word: brokering
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...Pearson ably demonstrated the technique of the international honest broker, though his interventions sometimes got him labeled as a neutralist in the U.S. When Red Chinese armies marched into Korea, and the U.S. proposed a hard U.N. resolution that Britain feared would extend the war, Pearson frankly told the U.S. that its policy was about "to go off the rails." Then he nudged Commonwealth Prime Ministers, meeting in London, closer to the U.S. position, and a compromise resolution was passed. Conceded a U.S. diplomat: "We would never have taken so much arm-twisting from anyone but Mike...
...evidence of grave abuses was gleaned with extraordinary care and effort. For 17 months Study Chairman Milton H. Cohen. 51, a reflective Chicago lawyer, rarely took a day off, frequently put in 110-hour weeks. Many of his 65 staffers fanned over the U.S. to interview hundreds of brokers, exchange officials and ordinary investors. The SEC sent out meticulously intimate questionnaires to 360 trading specialists and 600 member firms of the New York Stock Exchange. 800 members of regional exchanges. 2,000 companies whose stocks are traded over the counter. 5,000 broker-dealers who handle "unlisted" shares, and more...
With the disappearance of the British Commonwealth and the ever increasing cultural, political and economic influence of the United States, Canada has today lost her identity and independence, Conway continued. Her wartime role as "honest broker between the United States and Great Britain" has also vanished...
...hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage Initiation." Chirped Bonn Marriage Broker Alice Paech on Ash Wednesday: "Now it will start all over again...
...Randall Salas, a slim, 17-year-old high school senior in Caracas, Venezuela. Randall, who was born in Curaçao and speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamento (a Caribbean lingua franca), started his collection only in 1959. But he had a head start: his father, an insurance broker, has been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many back copies. Randall now has 402 covers signed by subjects, among them Konrad Adenauer, Moise Tshombe, U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet...