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...line between diplomacy and hypocrisy fades now as the turmoil in the Congo is aggravated and the political eulogizers smack their lips. Hammarskjold calls for an investigation-too late. Soviet Ambassador Zorin attempts to make Premier Khrushchev the hero of the affair. And American statesmen, witnessing the logical result of their Congo policy, hollowly express shock...
...hands, seamen, and service employees, who earn much of their income in tips. The Administration will probably suggest that coverage be extended to an additional 3,000,000 employees, chiefly in the retail and service trades-fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy. In so doing, it will run smack into the biggest foes of extending minimum-wage coverage: retail stores, hotels and restaurants, all of whom use much part-time, low-wage help...
...getting the "wrong" kind of student. Friendship University has tried to pick its own students abroad (India balked at that condition; Burma, the Congo, Nepal and Ethiopia refused to let any students go). Friendship University seems to have plenty of money, room, and even its courses do not smack too much of party dogmatism. But Russia has a long way to go before it can compete equally with the U.S., Britain or France as first choice in the contest for the best young minds of the backward parts of the world...
...line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village." The streets are cobbled, narrow, picturesquely obstructed by vegetable markets and, at one conspicuous intersection, by a medieval gate that funnels all traffic into a single lane. The main rail line between Cologne and Koblenz runs smack through the middle of the town, and for 20 minutes of every hour the guardrails are down, halting all traffic as the trains shuttle through...
This of course, put the group smack in the midst of an inescapable dilemma. To attract speakers from under-developed land, they would have to promise money for transportation, housing, and sometimes also pay honorariums. To receive the money, they would have to acquire ironclad commitments from each of the speakers...