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...though he makes a good living by playing one off against the other. He thus becomes a potentially useful middleman. In his old worrisome days, he sought the help of capitalistic Greece and Turkey against Moscow. Now Khrushchev would like to revive this moribund Balkan pact, hoping thereby to loosen the ties of Greece and Turkey to NATO. Greece and Turkey, of course, could be expected to say no, and to reaffirm their loyalty to NATO. But since they are themselves on the outs over Cyprus, and each in its own way a little out of sorts with its Western...
Against the day when "disquiet" might be translated into action, some companies are systematically trying to loosen their U.S. corporate ties and to "Canadianize" their management. One conspicuous example is U.S.-owned Union Carbide Canada Ltd., Canada's second biggest chemical manufacturer. Ever since it was formed four years ago from five loosely knit subsidiaries of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., the Toronto company has sought earnestly to assume a Canadian coloration. It took on a Canadian president and board chairman, gave Canadians four out of seven seats on the board of directors, put Canadians...
...Miss Gibson." wrote Tennis Great Alice Marble angrily in American Lawn Tennis, "is over a cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. I think it's time we faced a few facts. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites...
...1960s, when the big crop of World War II babies comes of age, vastly expanding the U.S. labor supply, the secretary shortage should solve itself. But meanwhile, businessmen would do well to reassert hiring standards, loosen up on age restrictions. If they fail to do so, they may have forgotten how good a good secretary...
...changes and promises hint that Franco is looking ahead to the day when Spain will be ruled by another person, or people, who won't have the prestige of being "the first Falangiste" to lean upon. Yet, the very fact that Franco has broadened his administration and pledges to loosen up, even very gradually and carefully, on censorship suggests his fear of continually suppressed criticism in a dictatorship whose stability may well rest solely upon Franco...