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With each side either testing nuclear weapons, or threatening to test them, a conference on disarmament borders on the ridiculous. Neither side is willing to forego the last word, or more important, the last test. In order to achieve constructive results, diplomats on both sides will have to make every possible attempt to remove the political and propaganda considerations from the negotiations...
Rockefeller Revolution. Italians said the supermarket could never succeed, and for long years the arguments sounded convincing: the housewife would never surrender the personal pleasure of bargaining down prices with the neighborhood shopkeeper, maids would not forego their leisurely gossip sessions in the marketplace, clerks and customers would steal the counters bare (as they did in a small-scale experiment with a self-service store in Milan in 1949). But after Romans stampeded the big U.S. supermarket set up under the direction of Grand Union's President Lansing P. Shield at an international food congress in Rome...
...tried to persuade manufacturers and wholesalers to cut prices by cutting profits. After last week's strike he got strong and unexpected help when the influential Roman Catholic Church issued a pastoral letter that declared "business concerns, have a greater duty to reduce their profits than workers to forego an increase in wages that barely meet family needs." Other signs of economic hope...
...host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied countries that want the protection of U.S. forces must in the final analysis accept U.S. military laws-or forego the protection. But this hard-boiled position neglects the fact that G.I.s are deployed in the interest of the U.S. as well as of the allies, at strategic land, sea and air bases around the non-Communist world...
...Harl provided for a Harvard education. About 1930, Harl came to Harvard--for three days--and then packed off with his inherited loot to Europe, where he bought a motorcycle. He claims some sort of record for his brief University career, and has scarcely ever regetted his decision to forego a longer...