Word: state-run
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...being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget abroad...
...does not have to be that way. In many parts of the world, gambling is legalized and largely free of criminal elements. State-run lotteries, which support everything from opera to cancer research, exist in 84 countries. While there have been fears recently that U.S. mobsters have infiltrated some of the thriving casinos in London, most of England's 1,000 licensed gaming houses are fairly clean operations where, as one director says, "Dad and the family can have a bit of a flutter for a fiver." In short, it seems better to establish some forms of government-controlled...
...BCMC called a commencement-time strike, in which many tradesmen participated, to show that it did in fact represent BGMA workers. The strike ended when Harvard agreed to attend a conciliation conference. At the conference, the three contesting unions and the University agreed to the state-run election...
...Harvard refused to yield to the pressure brought by the strike and insisted on a state-run election. Finally, in mid-June, the striking workers agreed to return to work if Harvard would attend the Concilation and Arbitration Board meeting. Harvard agreed to the meeting, and the striking workers went back to their Jobs...
...meeting, the conciliators managed to get all parties to agree to a state-run election, which is expected to be held sometime this month. But last night, Donn J. Berry, secretary of the Crafts Maintenance Council, warned that if it appears that the election won't be held until after the summer. Harvard "can expect the men back on the picket line...