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...last union stalwarts of New Deal days, Polish-born Dubinsky as a youth was banished to Siberia for calling a strike against his father's bakery, escaped, emigrated to the U.S., and joined the union at 19 as a buttonhole maker in Manhattan's "lung blocks" (so called because of their high TB incidence...
...European executives will become chief executive of an American company. To get there he will have to compete hard, however, with Americans sent abroad in the new reorganizations. As recently as a decade ago, a U.S. executive dispatched overseas was as likely as not being sent to Siberia. Today such a post is a testing ground for reaching the top. Says Corn Products International Vice President Beverly W. Warner: "For us, Brussels opens the door to New York...
Japan's businessmen for years have been eager to offer their know-how and equipment to help Russia develop Siberia's great resources-at a profit, of course. The Soviets have sometimes seemed to encourage the Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals...
...might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...
...incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve their minds by a period of hard labor...