Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Common Market Chief Wal ter Hallstein mused aloud on whether the Soviets might not succeed in reducing West Germany to the status of a second Finland-fearful, quiescent and accommodating. Seeking to avoid any words that might provoke the Russians, Kiesinger repeatedly edited and rewrote his Bundestag speech. As he explained to his associates: "We must not hold a lighted match under the tail of an already enraged bear...
...Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary. Some Germans were also contemplating the creation of a unified European defense force, another idea that French intransigence blocked back in 1954. Inadvertently, the Soviets...
...thrusts at such obvious targets hardly make for brilliant satire. But as monotonously intoned by singer Jeannie C. Riley on a tiny Nashville label called Plantation Records, P.T.A. is the runaway hit single of the late summer and autumn. It seems to have tapped a new anti-middle-class market. One other recent, lesser success is Singer-Songwriter Ray Stevens' Mr. Businessman, which declares in part: "Eighty-six proof anesthetic crutches brought you to the top/Where the smiles are all synthetic and the ulcers never stop." The market may consist either of middle-class youngsters...
...personality of Oppenheimer. He describes a young scientist so lost in the abstractions of physics that he once drove an automobile up the courthouse steps of a Western town, a man so unworldly that he had no radio, did not read newspapers and first heard about the 1929 stock-market crash months after it happened...
Only seven persons were involved in the picketing yesterday. Several customers were seen walking away from the Superior Market after pickets accosted them when they entered...