Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Soviet propaganda was having "a kind of field day" over Russia's unilateral suspension of nuclear tests, especially in newly independent countries that "haven't had the opportunity to become mature in these matters." From British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell-"Stop the nuclear tests and start the talks"-to Canada's Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker-"My hope is that the free world will discontinue the tests"-many maturer folk were flipflopping too. But Gromyko's charge against SAC was too wild for credibility...
...Dulles mention specific solutions, but Washington heard talk of such stabilizing devices as export and import quotas, buffer stocks, revolving funds to buy up surplus commodities, production controls. More ideas seem likely to be a major result of Vice President Nixon's trip through South America, scheduled to start next week...
With such profits available for bribes, no crackdown short of abolishing the free zone is likely to work. Aramburu made a token start by banning importation of a few luxury items to Patagonia. Last week customs announced the arrest of three leaders of one car-smuggling ring. But in Puerto Madryn the steamer went on unloading the jewelry, 5,000 cases of whisky, 1,000 cases of rum, bales of Brussels lace, crates of fireworks. As every Patagonian knew, such choice merchandise was not going to the goats...
...I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader has seized the opportunity to start a rival Haverhill paper...
Epstein says that he does not start with a definite conception of his subject. Instead, he believes in allowing the sitter's character to impose itself gradually on the clay as he works. After years of portraiture, he reached the learned conclusion that "men sitters are more vain than women sitters." This may in part explain why some of Epstein's most moving pieces are portraits of women...