Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syrup & Clydesdales. Six months a year, Busch throws open his estate to touring groups of children and adults (32,000 last year), shows them his treasures, dispenses free soda pop, cookies and ice cream smothered in Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug...
While the Philippines hoped to reach a settlement with the elusive Japanese (see above), Japan, in turn, was being teased along by Russia's Jacob Malik. In London, Ambassador Malik (who speaks Japanese) presented Chief Japanese Negotiator Shunichi Matsumoto with a peace treaty draft which hardly differed from the terms Japan rejected four years...
...might yet unbend with a few concessions, on the theory that he who gives slowly appears to give more. But the Japanese negotiators were plainly surprised and disappointed after all the fine Russian talk of wanting to "normalize" relations. Last week the Japanese formally rejected Malik's treaty draft, and hoped he had something better up his sleeve...
More important, the S.G. has the right to draft resolutions and take part in all U.N. debates. His duty, laid down in the charter, is to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten . . . international peace." In practice, this means that the S.G. may inject himself into any international dispute he thinks he can help to settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world...
...Draft. It was Hammarskjold's rare combination of brilliance, discretion and modesty that first attracted the British and the French, who proposed him for Secretary-General. The-first rumors reached him in his Stockholm apartment one night in 1952, but thinking it was a joke, he replied: "Amused but not interested." Then came confirmation from the U.N. "It was like the draft," he says: looking back. "But an obligation can develop into a privilege, and it really...