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President Dwight Eisenhower moved quickly down the main aisle of the United Nations' General Assembly chamber, nodding and smiling at the applause. He mounted the central dais, sat down on the high-backed blue chair that the U.N. brings out for special visitors. Introduced by New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro. president of the General Assembly, President Eisenhower stepped up to the dark green marble lectern, laid down an open notebook, and began his first United Nations address since his historic Atoms for Peace speech five years ago. In 1953 the President stirred hearts and minds with...
...Kubitschek had indeed been pleading for anything, he might have deserved credit for a plea well presented. After a second meeting, Dulles dashed off for a luncheon talk before the American Chamber of Commerce, then flew to Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, for a farewell dinner with Kubitschek. Then he headed back for Washington, where at week's end the Export-Import Bank announced that credits totaling $58 million in favor of the Bank of Brazil had been granted by a consortium of U.S. private banks, along with a $100 million credit from the Export-Import Bank itself...
...bill, rammed through the Chamber of Deputies two weeks earlier by the government's two-thirds majority, is admirably democratic in form. It requires Frondizi to name government administrators, who must hold free elections of officers in each of the C.G.T.'s 138 member unions within 90 days. Unions recognized by the Labor Ministry will get tax exemptions, exclusive bargaining rights in their fields and compulsory checkoff of dues. Charges of unfair labor practices will be ruled on by a government board...
...account of these wanderings still makes the reader feel that he has been dragged heels first through a municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret's cage" and ate unmentionable meals at tables under which there was sometimes a full chamber pot. Even Louis-Ferdinand Céline's vomitive delineation of the Paris slums could not bring more repulsive social maggots into focus than those fixed by Orwell's baleful lens. He went down the wet, dripping, insecure coal mines on the heels of the naked miners-the comparatively fortunate...
Impartial Advice. In Yuba City, Calif., when carpenters discovered a whisky still in the basement of a real estate office run by a couple of church deacons, the deacons denied any knowledge of it, helpfully pointed out that previous tenants were the City-County Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic County Central Committee and the Republican County Central Committee...