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...worldwide Communist revolution, and adopted Lenin's creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...
There was a slice of pie in the sky for everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing...
GOOD WEATHER INC. will offer tourists the first insurance against rain on European tours. Introduced by Scandinavian Airlines, each day of the 16-day tour is divided into three six-hour segments. The first eight rainy periods are deductible, but after that a policyholder collects $5 for every period in which it rains...
...trouble now," explains Tech Ops' President Frederick C. Henriques, 43, "is that you call up the Weather Bureau and receive a forecast of 'fair and warm' only to look out the window and find it's raining. That's because there is now a six-hour lag between forecasts." To cut weather forecasts to only a 20-minute lag around the nation, Tech Ops has joined with United Aircraft to develop a semi-automatic weather forecasting network for the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Agency and the Weather Bureau at a cost of more than...
...issue, the steelworkers seemed to break generally into two classes. The strong young workers talked tall ("If there's a strike, I'll just go on vacation-I don't give a damn"), yet were unsure of what to strike for ("What we need is a six-hour day, a 34-hour week"). But the seasoned older workers, who well know the belt-tightening frustration of past long strikes, feared another one. Said one Pittsburgh worker: "Some workers even wish the President would seize the mills rather than prolong the agony." A lot of them think...