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Labor unrest also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What...
...display arms. When the Soviet guard showed up with submachine-gun-toting soldiers standing on the sides of the vehicles, General Watson insisted that they climb inside. After a 43-minute argument, the Russians agreed and were escorted to the memorial by MPs. After another three-hour sitdown in which they objected to the escort, the Russians retaliated by dispatching a "quasi-escort" to shepherd a U.S. convoy on the Helm-stedt Autobahn...
...Europe Number One tries to stick to the facts. Time and again, its hard-driving news squads have scored impressive beats on RTF. In 1959 Europe Number One scooped RTF by six hours with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...
...Angeles, Bill's parents gave him his first "sitdown" dinner and dance (live music) for his tenth birthday. Tuxedoed boys escorted dates who wore corsages. One boy showered too much attention on another's date. "I had to talk with him and remind him he brought his own little date," explained Bill's mother...
...Test of Quality. Despite such paternalism, Hershey has had its full quota of labor trouble. A sitdown strike in 1937 set off a head-cracking battle between union and nonunion employees; in another bitter strike in 1953, the union was defeated in its demand for a closed shop. But since then, says the local agent of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bakery and Confectionery Workers, "our relationship has been progressively better...