Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hangars in the Johannestal airport are crammed with $75 million worth of textile products that nobody at home or abroad will buy. (After Ghana and Guinea turned them down, the East Germans tried to fob them off on Communist Hungary-which indignantly returned the whole lot.) The state-owned shoe industry was recently forced to burn 25,000 pairs of sandals that were unmarketable...
...demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets, he aims at many, misses few. Mauldin's Khrushchev stands in the U.N., a squat, solitary and ridiculous figure with his own shoe stuffed into his mouth. As for Russia's huge and backward Orientalally, Communist China, few cartoonists could sum it up better than Mauldin's trenchant cartoon that shows the Chinese as human ties beneath an oncoming train...
...Soviet position. Khrushchev would not budge. "This is a basic Soviet position and not negotiable," said Nikita firmly. He was frank to admit that it all began last year, when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was able to maneuver the Reds out of the Congo. It was at the shoe-banging U.N. General Assembly session in September that Khrushchev first broached the troika idea, demanding that the U.N. Secretariat be run not by one man, but by a team of three secretaries. Since then Moscow's delegates have applied it to every international conference in sight, including Laos...
...Africans have gained in maturity in the few months since Nikita Khrushchev first banged his shoe on a U.N. desk. They recognize that nothing much can be done in the U.N. unless it has the backing of the U.S., and they have shown willingness to accept moderate measures that the U.S. can support. Furthermore, Russian influence has dropped sharply. In African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating...
...Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse or fit a pipe, and he did all those things as a youth on his family's Louisiana sugar plantation, where his Spanish-descended father was an engineer in the mill. But the last thing he wanted to do was to spend the rest of his life on a plantation. He went to Chicago, where he happened to pay a visit to the Art Institute and to what is now the Museum of Natural History. There he was so beguiled by a collection of Egyptian...