Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva the Communists got precisely what they sought: a vast slice of Indo-China, and a stance from which to take the rest, plus formal recognition of their military conquests and time to do their further will. In the closing hours at Geneva, it was apparent that the Communists wanted peace as desperately as France (see FOREIGN NEWS). Now Red China had time-time to consolidate her dominance of the Asian continent, time (as a "peace-loving nation") to press for membership in the United Nations, and, above all, time to turn to the final suppression of the Chinese people...
...Minus-One. Mendès had begun that day, the next to last before his deadline, faced with new demands 1) from China's Chou En-lai for a slice of northern Laos to be attached to China's province of Yunnan, and 2) from Pham Van Dong for more than a third of Laos to be handed over to the "free" Pathet Laos movement. Heavy black circles under his eyes, Mendès had picked up his faithful backer Anthony Eden, rushed off to see Chou Enlai...
...thus sawing a thick slice off its case load, the board hopes to give itself more time to interpret issues that are "clearly of . . . national concern." To meet the board's new requirements for interstate operators, a retailer must 1) buy at least $1,000,000 worth of goods a year directly outside his state (v. $500,000 previously), or 2) buy $2,000,000 indirectly (v. $1,000,000), or 3) ship $100,000 worth outside the state (v. $25,000). Companies in some categories are excluded completely if their yearly gross revenues do not reach a certain...
Hobson's Choice (London Films; United Artists) is a cheerful little slice of death, warmed over and served with some lively comic sauces by Producer-Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great...
...does most of his thinking about these while others sleep. He gets up as early as 3:30 a.m., brews himself a pot of coffee and sits for hours, thinking and listening to the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, a fundamentalist preacher on Dallas' Station KRLD. After breakfast (a slice of melon or a bottle of Coke) he drives himself to work in a 1953 Ford. He works in shirtsleeves with no tie, throws papers that he wants filed on the carpeted floor...