Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After each interception, the British consul in Taipei protests to the Nationalist government. Taipei's invariable reply: "We know nothing about it ... They must be sea guerrillas." The British cry "piracy," but the Nationalists do not even call it a blockade; their phrase is "port closure," which they insist they have the right to enforce, on Ihe grounds that they are still the legal government of China. So far, both sides have avoided a breach out of deference to their common ally, the U.S. The State Department says, "We have no policy in the matter...
...Principles. Spiritualists, who. are touchy about being mentioned in the same breath with tea-leaf readers and crystal-ball gazers, insist that they are a growing movement, attracting new members and permeating orthodox churches. They are most successful in California, Michigan and New York, least successful in the Bible belt. Actual membership figures are vague; estimates range from...
...sign of his power rather than of his popularity. Few top A.F.L. officials like him, and even fewer trust him. But, at 59, he is one of the half-dozen most powerful labor bosses in the nation, and he is still on the climb. Beck's enemies insist that his goal is nothing less than a single, giant labor federation, with himself as its boss. Since he succeeded Dan Tobin as Teamster president last year, Beck has kept on the offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership of "in excess...
...near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio Piccioni, the Vice Premier, who was expected to attempt a deal with the Monarchists-something Alcide de Gasperi would not do. Piccioni's first step: to insist that De Gasperi be his Foreign Minister. Even in defeat, De Gasperi was still a man to reckon with...
...vital part of the economy. But even some truckers realize that it is time for the trucking industry to face the fact that its own future lies in a constructive approach to the highway problem. Unless the truckers do, U.S. motorists, who far outnumber the truckers, may well insist on even tighter regulations than now bind the railroads...