Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, top U.N. officials have coldly charged that all this represents a Belgian attempt to regain power in the Congo-an accusation to which Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny hotly replied last week with the implicit threat of a Belgian walkout from the U.N. But many a rank-and-file U.N. worker in the Congo is glad enough to see the Belgians return. "Why shouldn't they come back?" asked one U.N. civil affairs officer. "They've forgotten more about this place than we'll ever learn...
Nations wanting to join the U.N. file an application with the Secretary-General, which must be approved by seven members of the Security Council (including the five permanent members-China, France, U.S.S.R., United Kingdom and the U.S.) and two-thirds of the General Assembly present and voting. Membership begins the day the Assembly makes its decision...
...Tourists file through the garish, neon-lit Wanchai quarter-the world of Suzie Wong-dodging red rickshas and the green, double-decker tramcars. There are bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
Hawaii (3): Union chiefs endorsed Nixon, but rank and file are defecting. UNPREDICTABLE...
...election day draws close, Bagwell spends up to a dozen hours a day at plant gates, carrying his case to the rank and file. A band of Bagwell campaigners swoop down at shift-break time. The men are orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform is stamped BAGWELL FOR GOVERNOR in black. (Highly visible orange and black are "this year's colors" for campaigners, so a Madison Avenue firm advised.) They wave orange balloons and they pass out orange matchbooks. An accordionist plays When the Saints Go Marching In or Show...