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...What One May. For months he had been planning to call a conference of Communist parties in order to thresh out the ideological split in the international Communist movement. But be fore he could even send off his invitations, Peking further complicated the whole affair by refusing to attend and promising to keep off the list of invited guests its allies in the ever-growing Sino-Soviet squabble...
...support lower Common Market industrial tariffs. Germany wants to reduce these tariffs so that the Market will have a stronger bargaining position in the upcoming "Kennedy Round" of negotiations with the U.S., through which the Germans hope to be able to increase their industrial exports. The ministers must also thresh out policies covering wheat and other grains, but De Gaulle's ultimatum, it turned out when the fine print was read, applied only to beef, rice and dairy products. Belgium's Spaak introduced a pacifying proposal to put the grain problem off until early next year...
...they start buying, that is. Though Russia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary have indicated that they want 150 million bushels of U.S. wheat in a hurry, some problems remain. A four-man Soviet team headed by First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Sergei A. Borisov flew into Washington last week to thresh them out. Chief stumbling block is a provision that the President wrote into the deal to help increase its political palatability in the U.S. It requires that the wheat be transported in U.S. ships whenever possible. Since it costs around $20 a ton to move the wheat to Russian ports...
...sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...
...price-G.M., with prompting from the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, further improved its dealer relations. It extended dealer contracts from one year to five, hired an ex-judge to decide disagreements between the company and its dealers, and set up elected dealer councils to thresh out problems with company brass. The result is that today G.M.'s 13,800 U.S. dealerships are prized possessions. Says San Francisco Chevy Dealer Ellis Brooks: "Getting a Chevrolet franchise is the dream of everybody in the business...