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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower years, Lewis showed labor statesmanship of the highest order. He continued to press for the wage increases that brought average U.M.W. pay from $6 a day in 1920 to $11.75 after the war to $24.25 today. He fought for, got, and managed with integrity a $150-million-a-year health-and-welfare fund, went to bat on Capitol Hill for important mine-safety legislation...
...military brass of 15 nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first sessions in NATO's new headquarters involved a skittish probing...
...West, the twice-Texas-sized, rugged but rich Sinkiang province. On one side it abuts Russian Kazakhstan, on the other Tibet, to which it is linked by the disputed Ladakh Road through Indian-occupied Kashmir. In Sinkiang as in neighboring Tibet, the Chinese are an invading minority. Half a million Chinese are outnumbered by 4,500,000 hard-riding, xenophobic Moslem herdsmen, the Uighurs and Kazakhs, who pledge friendship by daubing their foreheads with lamb's blood. The literal meaning of Kazakh is "man without a master...
...strength the military demands disproportionately costly and often unsuitable tools for the job. Brazil has spent $2 billion on its armed forces in the past six years v. $1.6 billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais (once H.M.S. Vengeance) will cost $36 million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts...
...officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired officers v. 10,000 on active duty; Brazil's out-to-pasture list includes 1,500 generals and 38 field marshals...