Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (Williams on Kozlov: "Urbane, gracious, shrewd, tough." Kozlov on Williams: "Not well informed on foreign affairs"). He visited Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley (who, said Kozlov, reminded him of the mayor of Leningrad), inspected an Illinois farm, a Pittsburgh steel mill. Through it all, Frol Kozlov plainly showed that he was having a good time, just as plainly took every opportunity to call for the kind of "peaceful coexistence" that means peace at Communism's price...
...hard-muscled man with a slightly bulbous nose and brown hair etched with grey, Blough had not only devised the industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...that he is a status sucker. He was eleven years old when his father, who owned movie houses in Lawrence, Mass., abruptly went broke. Kicked out of their mansion on Jackson Street, the Demaras landed in a shabby old carriage house on the wrong side of the gloomy old mill town. Fred hated poverty, with its stiff work boots and corduroy knickers, and he refused to face it. Every chance he got he sneaked back to the old house, sat in the attic and "dreamed about things I hoped would come true...
...payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid's leading steel company...
...what to strike for ("What we need is a six-hour day, a 34-hour week"). But the seasoned older workers, who well know the belt-tightening frustration of past long strikes, feared another one. Said one Pittsburgh worker: "Some workers even wish the President would seize the mills rather than prolong the agony." A lot of them think it is a matter for union brass alone to decide. "If you're in the Army," says one, "you don't have much to say about whether you're going to march the next morning...