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Telephone company spokesmen said the new rate will apply to all types of service...
...Arabia's delayed awakening began in August when nine employees marched into Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Co., biggest enterprise in the land) demanding "justice" for all the company's 15,000 native workers. After its first surprise, the U.S.-owned oil company agreed to hear the spokesmen (all of them, it turned out, educated at Aramco expense, two in the U.S.). Their demands: a living allowance of $240 monthly added on to their $42 minimum wage, "living conditions just like American employees," air conditioning for all Saudi workers' homes, substantial reductions in foreign personnel...
...least as harmful as the old imperialism; I know that our small, overcrowded, over-industrialized island must trade to live, and we do not want to live mainly on dollar handouts, grateful as we have been for them. If all that Mr. Dulles and other American spokesmen have said is true, they want a strong British and Commonwealth alliance; yet American actions in recent years-the insistence on an impossibly large defense program for Britain as well as the disruption of British overseas trade-have tended steadily to weaken Britain economically...
...Looking pale and wan, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev attended a diplomatic reception in Teheran, his first public appearance since he disappeared three weeks ago amid reports that he had shot or poisoned himself in despair over Communism's harsh setback in Iran (TIME, Sept. 14). Lavrentiev, said embassy spokesmen, had simply been...
...days after the body arrived, the couple hurried off to nearby Cumberland, Md., were married, hurried back, packed a bag and left Rockwood-two full days before Sterner's funeral. The speed of the romance left Rockwood a little indignant. But Army spokesmen said that the sergeant had broken no regulations. At week's end, Alma, now settling down in Green's home town, Waterbury Center, Vt., explained everything: "I have a bad heart," she said, "and didn't think it would be a good idea to attend the funeral...