Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the U.S.'s good friends and hard-bargaining customers agreed last week to take more U.S. goods. They did so with appropriately pretty speeches. "Equity if not gratitude" requires it, said France's Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory launched into a tribute "to the invaluable help that we and all other countries in the free world have received from the U.S. in economic aid during the difficult postwar period...
...party line was obviously a special dividend to De Gaulle, who insists that Russia has not yet paid enough for a summit (TIME, Nov. 2). By delaying a summit, De Gaulle hopes to be able to ensure Russia's good behavior during the U.N. debate on Algeria. Fortnight ago summit-hungry Nikita Khrushchev swallowed hard and publicly proclaimed: "President de Gaulle's recent proposal that the Algerian problem be solved on the basis of self-determination . . . may play an important part in the settlement of the question." Until then, French Communists had dismissed De Gaulle's offer...
...Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles. Soviet Culture printed a cloakroom attendant's confession that on a good cold night he took in as much as $20 in tips...
There is a good chance that the Congolese African leaders will boycott De Schrijver's conference as well as the December elections. "Nineteen Sixty will be a year of war and misery," predicted Troublemaker Lumumba before he was led off to jail by the Stanleyville police. As if fearing this prediction was all too accurate, Belgians began flying troop reinforcements south to the Congo...
...future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...