Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiff though the emergency measures might be, they could only be stopgap as long as British management and labor continue their easygoing, old-fashioned way of doing business. An increasing number of British statesmen and economists insist that a lasting cure can be effected only by Britain's entry into the Common Market. Under the icy blast of aggressive European competition, they argue, British industry may be shocked into new life...
...manufacturers, as usual, insisted on shrouding the new models in secrecy, so as to get the utmost response from buyers during the fall unveilings. But here and there, they allowed a glimpse: a peek-a-boo of a Lark in the woods, a new Plymouth wrapped in bedsheets. In general, the new models' intermediate size is a compromise that offers greater inside roominess with reasonable outside dimensions-very much, in fact, like the cars of a decade ago. Having found that buyers insist on all kinds of fancy extras (Chevy's 1961 Corvair got off to a slow...
...Germany into postwar occupation zones, agreed to a "special Berlin area," which would be jointly administered by the Allies deep within the Soviet zone. Since the occupation zones were expected to be temporary-and since the West had not yet learned to doubt Soviet promises-the Allies failed to insist on written guarantees for access to the city through the surrounding Russian zone. By March 1945, the Allied armies under General Eisenhower were near enough to Berlin to seize the city for the West, and Winston Churchill, suspecting future trouble, urged Ike to take the devastated capital. But the Supreme...
Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...
Hell to Pay. The auto companies insist that they are prepared to grant only such benefits as can be paid for out of the industry's average 2½% increase in productivity each year. This would amount to about 7? more an hour, a settlement the industry would consider noninflationary. The automen are dead set against a shorter work week and against putting all workers on salaries. The industry opposes continuance of the annual "improvement-factor" automatic wage increases and the escalator clause that adjusts auto wages to rises in the Consumer Price Index. Snaps Reuther: "I have made...