Word: sweetener
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USSR, much more clever, attempts to sweeten the pill itself, by avoiding inflammatory statements and using a very soft-sell of the myriad delights in the Workers' Paradise. Unfortunately, subtlety is not the Russians' forte. USSR at its best is an informative, mildly interesting pictorial magazine; at its worst it is almost a self-parody of Communist propaganda. Finally, Poland, a truly fine publication, has merely set about producing a good magazine, in the hope that sympathy for Poland will develop among its readers as a matter of course...
...infection, but found no evidence of any. On Saturday, three more babies died. Still no one thought of checking the formula, partly because some babies were taking theirs well. Finally, Practical Nurse May Pier, pausing in her Sunday morning duties, mixed herself a cup of instant coffee, and to sweeten it she dipped into the formula room's canister for sugar. The coffee tasted like sea water. Curious, she tasted what was in the canister. It was not sugar but salt, and it had been going into the formulas of 14 babies. (Those who thrived were getting a patented...
...Soviet proposal, for Smirnov has offered not the slightest hint of what political price Moscow might be prepared to offer in any negotiations. But in their pitch, the Russians have firm backing from all their allies-even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances of German reunification, also wants to show German voters that he has ideas...
...troubles that were to come in the House. In its first major legislative act, the Senate overwhelmingly approved $394 million in new aid to depressed areas; the House finally endorsed the bill too, but only after a hard fight and only after the Administration had agreed to sweeten the measure with extra benefits for the congressional districts. Similarly, the House once voted down the Administration's bill to raise the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the measure was accepted only after laundry workers (who do not, after all, form much of a voting bloc in most...
...presented to the House last week, the Administration's bill was the mildest of measures. Left out altogether was the controversial aid for teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...