Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, while Britain spread its empire round the world, admission to the Mother of Parliaments was confined to inhabitants of the British Isles. Last week, in a historic shift, the House of Commons adopted a plan to make the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom, entitled to elect three members to the House of Commons...
Cries for Blood. The Indonesian government was convinced that many Dutchmen were supporting rebel groups in the hills in a last-ditch fight against the new republic. In January 1954 it began to round up about 30 Dutch suspects, and Jungschlaeger was arrested and thrown in jail. Thirteen months later, he was haled into a dirty, steaming courtroom in Djakarta and charged with leading and supplying two terrorist bands of rebels, with the help of the U.S. embassy, the British, and assorted Dutch agencies. The prosecutor asked the death penalty...
...through Europe's museums and cathedrals; for those who like music a 50-day whirl from Bayreuth to Rome, Wagner to Verdi. In addition, 16,000 ocean cruise passengers (average age: 65) each year take American Express shore tours or buy the whole cruise, e.g., a 97-day, round-the-world trip (cost: up to $20,000) on the Kungsholm...
...expects that the 1956 Olympics will bring in many. Visitors follow the relaxed, happy life of Australians, splash in the surf that pounds its beaches, and go to see the original Teddy bears at the Koala Bear Sanctuary in Brisbane. More adventurous types can fly out to Hayman Island (round trip: $209) on the Great Barrier Reef, where there is a good hotel ($5 per day) and some of the world's best skindiving and big game fishing, or go on a three-week hunting trip (cost: $210) for monster crocodiles in the lonely Bay of Carpenteria...
...wages, Westinghouse's original offer of five months ago was upped only slightly, from a minimum increase of 23½? spread over the next five years to a round 25?. The give-and-take process reduced the time-study issue-biggest stumbling block in the negotiations-to hash. The I.U.E. conceded management's right to make time studies on nonproduction workers in principle, while Westinghouse agreed to restrict them in practice. Westinghouse also agreed to submit any disputes resulting from the studies to arbitrators, a concession it formerly flatly refused...