Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proud Chinese are making prodigious efforts to repay the Russians for their aid and to free themselves of their need for it (officials "hope" they will be self-sufficient in machine-tool production by 1970). They keep their Soviet technicians apart in a suburb of Peking and forbid their own students in Russia to marry or keep company with Russians. They make the most of their sheer numbers. In the China Quarterly, Professor Robert C. North of Stanford University tells of talking to one gloomy Soviet engineer who had worked out the possibilities as neatly as a chess problem: "Suppose...
...sick of Tennessee Williams and those who trail gleefully after him. If man has nothing more to say about himself than that he is doomed-why bother? MURIEL MONTEKIO New York City Sir: The attack by Alfred Kazin is off the mark. All creative artists use exaggeration as a tool. This is as true of a Beethoven symphony as of the distorted figure of a Gothic saint as of the distorted pointing finger of Matthias Grunewald. The literary artist also by necessity must choose the exaggerated and often grisly side, especially the dramatist. Characters like incestuous Oedipus or child-murdering...
...dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators, who set about converting the labor movement into an anti-American political tool...
...producing overseas since 1953 for the U.S. market, has found cheaper tool costs abroad enable it to change designs more frequently than in the U.S., keep its products up to the minute. Other firms set up abroad to be near raw materials...
...Orthodox St. Nicholas Cathedral, completed in 1903 as the seat of Russian Orthodoxy in North America, should be returned to the control of the Russian hierarchy. In 1924 a majority of Russian Orthodox parishes in the U.S. seceded from the Moscow Patriarchate on the ground that it was a tool of the Communist state and in 1945 the schismatic group, known as the Metropolitan District, won a suit in the New York Court of Appeals to take over the cathedral...