Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Big Three. Russia is not fundamentally interested in "relaxation of tensions," in the Rapacki disengagement plan, a "thinning out" of Soviet and U.S. troops in Central Europe, or any other ingenious schemes for an overall settlement of the German problem. What Khrushchev is determined to do, beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World...
...North was through with a job that would have taken five men half a day working with buckets and pitchforks. He was ready to indulge his hobby. He returned to his farmhouse and poured himself another cup of coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand piano. Farmer North...
When Is a Poison? Nobody knows how many of the additives now in use have been fully tested. Best guess: about 150 are tried and true, will cause no problem, e.g., old familiars such as sodium benzoate (preservative in foods and many soft drinks), and other items less recognizable but long widely used-calcium or sodium propionate (mold inhibitor in bread) and butylated hydroxy anisole (antioxidant to keep fats from going rancid). Another 150 are expected to pass the tests, but 100 or more are in a medical no-man's land...
...United Steel Workers' Boss Dave McDonald, the coming bargaining with the steelmakers poses a problem. He has to get something for his unionists, but the steelmakers, like the automen last spring, seem in a pretty parsimonious mood. Last week McDonald came out with an idea that he hoped would please his steel workers, and not cost too much for the companies. He suggested a three-months' vacation with pay for each worker every five years. "At current rates." said McDonald, "this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create...
...problem is that the picture, like the Broadway play (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954) it is adapted from, is trying to make people laugh at a situation that is not really funny at all. Still, for an hour or so Actor Webb manages to keep the customers with him as he conducts his sly and skillful retreat to respectability; but after that, somehow the joke begins to get tired. Even vicariously, bigamy appears to be exhausting...