Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoe-Thumping Fellow. Dag Hammarskjold believed in "quiet diplomacy," an elegant discipline that few diplomatists of his era, surrounded by swift teletypes and curious reporters, were able to endure. Undramatically, he sent a United Nations Emergency Force into Egypt in the wake of the abortive British, French and Israeli invasion-and for the first time the world saw the strange sight of oddly assorted volunteers from various countries (Danes, Norwegians, Colombians) in blue helmets serving as an international army. Then came the U.N. "presence" in Lebanon and Jordan in 1958, the U.N.'s representative in Laos in 1959, last...
...Hammarskjold's request to send a U.N. force into the Congo, in a sense because Hammarskjold shamed them into it; later, they turned viciously against him when he refused to allow Russia in effect to take over from the U.N. in the Congo. Thumping his fists, waving his shoe, Moscow's Premier Nikita Khrushchev appalled the General Assembly as he campaigned for Hammarskjold's destruction. "Whose saint is he? . . . It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post," cried Nikita. Hammarskjold listened, immobile, his hands folded against...
Later, in a remarkable, ironic letter to his brother in Sweden, Hammarskjold made clear how he felt about Khrushchev: "The big shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant 'nonCommunists' with hail and thunder and probably also locusts and other plagues traditionally favored by tribal gods...
...Arthur worked. He got his first job at twelve, running errands at a shoe factory for $3 a week. Says he: "They were not very particular about child-labor laws then." While in high school, he learned some harsher facts of labor life. Working for $6 a week as a suit packer in a clothing store ("I can still pack a suit pretty well"), Goldberg and some fellow employees protested at being forced to work extra hours at no extra pay. The result was decisive: "We were fired...
Inevitably, the infant industry is faced with what one Los Angeles shelterman describes as "the problem of keeping out the suede-shoe boys and the siding salesmen." Says an Atlanta builder: "One firm ran an ad selling shelters at $450. The thing was 7½ by 7½ and not anywhere near Civil Defense specifications, though they claimed...