Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would have to fight. Again, in October 1950, moving among dazed, defeated soldiers in Korea, he vowed not to be bound by the "school solution." In the Pentagon, Johnson has labored devotedly to instill those lessons. Cigar-chomping Army Vice Chief of Staff "Abe" Abrams, an iron-nerved commander who led Patton's tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls him "the toughest man I have ever known." Moreover, General Johnson expects the other 1,016,920 soldiers in his Army to be equally tough. "What an individual can do depends on his state of mind...
Outlawed Stamp. Not quite so funny were the new economic sanctions that Wilson slapped on Rhodesia. In addition to the embargo on Rhodesian tobacco and sugar (the nation's major crops), Britain also banned imports of asbestos (a $30 million export item last year), copper, lithium, chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British...
...British Motor Corp. is fighting Italy's Fiat for the contract to build an auto factory. Last week ouside Ploesti in Rumania, Illinois' Universal Oil Products prepared to break ground for a $22.5 million cracking plant-one of the biggest U.S. construction jobs ever undertaken behind the Iron Curtain...
...considered the very symbol of decadent capitalism. Under an agreement between Bulgaria's Communist government and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, work has just started on a bottling plant in the Black Sea city of Varna that next June will begin producing the first Coke ever mixed behind the Iron Curtain...
...Lesson. After four weeks of discreet conversations, the negotiators completed the "preliminary articles" of a treaty that conceded all the major U.S. demands and envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous Mesabi iron lode, were included by a cartographical accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then...