Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...
...Socialist Pineau proposed sweeping new cultural and economic exchanges with the Iron Curtain countries, e.g., selling French electronic equipment and jet transport planes to the Communist empire; Dulles thought that exchange visits should be handled on a "selective basis," that controls on strategic trade with the Communists should be reviewed item by item...
...however much he valued their views, General Eisenhower was no man to let his Cabinet dictate to him. Once, while arguing with Wilson over increased trade with Iron Curtain countries, Ike said: "If you trade with them, Charlie, you have got something pulling their interest your way." Replied Wilson: "I think I am going to be on the tough side of this one." Said Ike patiently but firmly: "Charlie, I am talking common sense." And the Administration's general policy has been toward increased, although selective, East-West trade-with Wilson going right along...
Against such campaigning, the desperate Liberals stooped to using a demagogic line of their own, charging that Duplessis was selling out the province's resources to U.S. investors. Ironically, this was the same accusation that opponents have been hurling at the Liberal government in Ottawa. But on the Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general...
Ever since famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek, 34, brashly told an Italian newsman last April that U.S. athletes are the "best in the world" and will win this summer's Olympics in Melbourne, he has not again run or prophesied on the sunnier side of the Iron Curtain. Last week the Czech Ministry of Sports announced that capitalist-praising Zatopek will not compete again until he recovers from a sprained ankle (a fortnight ago, Iron-Man Zatopek ran a poor fifth in a 5,000-meter race in Prague). The mystery, however, was not solved...