Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Respect. At his press conference in Washington earlier in the week, Secretary of State Dulles had noted defensively that Soviet propaganda was having "a kind of field day" over Russia's unilateral suspension of nuclear tests, especially in newly independent countries that "haven't had the opportunity to become mature in these matters." From British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell-"Stop the nuclear tests and start the talks"-to Canada's Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker-"My hope is that the free world will discontinue the tests"-many maturer folk were flipflopping too. But Gromyko...
...nation's No. 1 fitness problem," said Shane MacCarthy, executive director of the President's Council on Youth Fitness. "I was at a recruiting station recently, and the doctors there told me they've detected a new ailment-heel fractures among soldiers learning to march. They haven't used their legs enough to be ready for the exercise they get in basic training. We do too much sitting and looking when we should be out doing...
Smith: Well, why not? If we try to solve our economic problems by shoving goods down people's throats through manufactured money and high-pressure salesmanship, we risk a deep corruption of the people, not just because they will be stuffed with goods they haven't earned and don't really need, but also because people eventually won't know what to do with them...
Editorialized the New Haven, Conn. Journal-Courier: "Obviously a mistake has been made in gauging the public's taste in automobiles. Yet the industry's leaders still go on insisting that the size, overpowered motor capacity and pretentious finlike protrusions of today's monsters of the highway are predetermined by public desire and not arbitrarily by the manufacturers. But mistakes have been made before in adjudging public wants. Actually, the turn by so many toward the tiny cars from Europe should have brought the truth home to an alert industry...
...Eyre's grandfather developed the South America trade for W.R. Grace and Company, and built up the Grace Line, which is to South America what the United Fruit Company is to Central America. "Me? I haven't the slightest inclination to go into the business. But if it came right down to it, of course I would if I could...