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...With Chagrin. In 1964, while grappling with its own problems, labor also sees its political influence waning, and is watching with some chagrin as a Democratic President woos businessmen as ardently as he seeks labor's support. On the other hand, few businessmen care to underestimate labor's still considerable power-particularly the power to disrupt. This week Walter Reuther is scheduled to decide whether to take the United Auto Workers out on strike. On his decision depends whether the U.S. economy will be shaken by the effects of the year's first major strike...
...with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever, and a dupe of the Communists, Grivas talked Greece's leadership into letting him return to Cyprus last month. Virtually unannounced, he arrived and instantly won the loyalty of the Greek Cypriot irregulars-to the considerable chagrin of Makarios, who wants to get rid of Turkish influence in Cyprus but is reluctant to make his little land a mere Greek province through enosis...
Skipping the Summit. To meet that deadline, other Rumanians were dickering with potential economic allies, both East and West. Doubtless to Khrushchev's chagrin, Bucharest announced the conclusion of an accord with Red China that would swap Rumanian know-how in the field of petroleum engineering for Chinese expertise in agriculture, chemistry, and food processing. At the same time, Rumania was sounding out two U.S. firms -Boeing and Douglas- about the possibility of purchasing short-haul jet transports...
...Government counts among the jobless such people as fulltime students looking for part-time work, and the job-seeking wives and children of laid-off workers. What if other countries did the same? Sweden, celebrated land of low unemployment, not long ago adopted the U.S. system; to their chagrin, the Swedes soon found that their national unemployment rate was four times higher than under their old, looser standards...
...chagrin, the Crillon discovered that some of its columns were made of wood cleverly painted to simulate stone. The facade of the Invalides, where Napoleon lies buried, provided another embarrassing surprise. Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement...