Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acknowledgment that Japan, which "must trade to live." is free to follow Britain's example and increase the level of its nonstrategic trade with Red China. Stressed Kishi: his government intends to export no strategic goods to China nor will it recognize the Peking regime...
...heart of the scrubby no man's land of Panmunjom, three U.S. generals, a British brigadier and a Republic of Korea air-force officer coldly confronted 40 North Korean commissars and military men. "I have a statement to make," began Major General Homer L. Litzenberg, U.S.M.C., in a level voice. Then, while the Communists listened attentively, he told them that the U.N. Command no longer felt bound by subparagraph 13D of the Korean armistice agreement-the clause limiting introduction of new weapons into Korea...
Belafonte's Detroit appearance, following a vastly successful Pittsburgh opener and a one-night stand in Cleveland, seemed to prove what he has long contended: that there is a broader audience for folk music in the U.S. than anyone realized, if it is presented "with a certain level of maturity" and "without distorting the ethnic values." To reach that audience. Belafonte decided this year to cut down nightclub dates, form his own touring company. "Belafonte Presents, Inc." will tour the country all summer, perhaps go to Europe, Africa and Asia next year...
...economy ignored both statistics and statements. If business were slipping, money should be easing; yet last week money was tighter than ever, reflecting a demand for funds to finance expansion. The Federal Reserve Board announced that record levels during May were maintained in construction activity, nonfarm employment, personal income and retail sales. Mortgage applications jumped to their highest level in several months, leading builders to hope for a summer upturn in lagging home building...
...postwar romance between novelists and the business world-a highly tentative affair at best-may be going pfffft. The hero of From the Dark Tower deserts his executive suite in Manhattan and his split-level home in the suburbs to fish for his soul in the shade of a Rocky Mountain peak. The hero of The Durable Fire undergoes the equivalent of a deathbed conversion before he can regain his faith in the corporate way of life. Both men sing the organizational blues, to wit, Big Business is too much like Big Brother...