Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, where he unloaded boxcars and trucks. At 19, he took his warehouse workers into a Detroit Teamster local. At 24, he became president of Detroit's Local 299, a post he still holds. In the 1940s he spread out through the Midwest, then moved South and East...
Cold-War Indifference. Guinea aside, the question of Communist influence does not-at least as yet-seriously arise. Though the present African leaders are almost all Western-educated and Western-minded, they are highly indifferent to the struggle between East and West. They seem to be much too possessive about their new position to ally themselves with other powers, even with one another...
...disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that 52 employees on its Far East run, all but two of them stewards and stewardesses, had been dismissed, with more firings to come...
...week's end word came that General Ayub, in flying the 1,000 miles across India that divides West and East Pakistan, will make what is officially described as a "fuel stop" at the Indian capital of New Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with...
...more than two years, the feud between Egypt's Colonel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein fairly curdled the Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...