Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy. U Nu traveled up and down assuring voters that in meditating he "became humble and made new resolutions to become a good man." His Cleans would "behave like good politicians to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana," and he promised if elected to make Buddhism the "state religion." Last week the Cleans won municipal majorities in eleven major Burmese cities, and in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, U Nu's forces cleaned out the Stables with a vengeance. U Nu candidates, expecting to win 20 seats in the municipal corporation, swept all 35 seats...
Sweden has been enjoying it both ways. The spirit behind Sweden's elaborate welfare state comes from a quarter of a century of Socialist rule, but the money that supports it is provided by an economy that is almost entirely capitalist free enterprise. Last year Socialist Premier Tage Erlander promised even more welfare benefits on the easy, easy. He proposed legislation to guarantee workers over 67 years old a lifetime pension amounting to two-thirds of their average earnings at the peak 15 years of their working lives. Who would pay? Why, employers would bear the costs, getting...
...already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia's ancient talent with the needle-doing a roaring trade in tailoring and alterations...
...recommendation fromOregon's Senator Wayne Morse, visiting in Buenos Aires, that the U.S. aid state oil monopolies, such as Argentina...
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...