Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head on the Table. Faure, the nimble master of political maneuver who had appointed Grandval. urged him to reconsider-but only halfheartedly. A worldly-wise French bureaucrat remarked that the Premier thought "it might not be a bad idea to have Grandval's head on the negotiation table." Shocked...
In recent local elections, the Moslem League Party, founders of Pakistan and hitherto its absolute rulers, found itself overwhelmingly repudiated by the voters. It was faced with two alternatives: to seize power through the army, after the classical pattern of one-party dictatorship, or to rule by the traditional democratic...
But in Britain's newspapers there was much tush-tushing of the public's new optimism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and reminders that at Geneva Russia gave up nothing and settled nothing. BBC Commentator Peter Calvocaressi reached a different conclusion: at Geneva, President Eisenhower, by dint of his great...
IN fact and fiction, U.S. executives have always belonged to country clubs, and used them as much for business profit as weekend pleasure. But in today's expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of...
Your admirable and thorough article on the U.N. correctly states that it is not a superstate or a world federation, but how can you say that "The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government"? All realists must agree that, until the U.N. becomes a...