Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney was chatting not long ago to a roomful of influential Britons and Americans about some airy new suggestions for U.S. foreign policy. Said he: "There is even the proposal to send Mr. Dulles behind the Iron Curtain." From somewhere out of the back of the room a senior civil servant muttered something that sounded like "and keep him there." "Jock" Whitney broke into a grin and said chidingly, "Now, now." The whole room shook with laughter...
...Dulles needed any kind of expert solace last week, he could get it from behind the bars of the Iron Curtain cell of Milovan Djilas, ex-guerrilla leader, ex-Tito crony, now imprisoned for writing scathing anti-Communist articles and the bestseller The New Class. Wrote Djilas: "Dulles makes great mistakes in timing and procedure; but despite such mistakes he undoubtedly has a greater understanding of the world political picture than any other man in America...
...billion. Oil production has nearly doubled to 2,700,000 bbl. a day, and with new wells coming in at record rates, oilmen foresee that it may rise another 85% by 1966. Oil now accounts for about $2 billion in exports, or about 95% of the yearly total. Iron-ore production, mostly by the United States Steel Corp. mines at Cerro Bolivar, increased by a third in 1957 to about 15 million tons. Irrigation projects and rapid farm mechanization have boosted agriculture until Venezuela now produces 85% of its own food. New investments and a protectionist policy for inefficient industry...
...fiddling, there is hardly a more important contest in the world than Poland's two-week Wieniawski Violin Competition.* The contest opened in Poznan this year with 45 contestants from eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
Married. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 73, silver-haired Cleveland tycoon (steel, iron ore, coal, railroads); and Cleveland Socialite Anne Kinder Jones, 35, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1946; both for the second time; in Northfield, Ohio...