Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ignotus* got the full treatment. At a secret trial at the end of 1950 he confessed: "I said that I hated the workers. I admitted I was a willing tool of the Western imperialists and capitalists. I recited fully the lesson I had spent a year and a half learning." What made tough, hawk-nosed Ignotus accept his lesson? Says he: "Koestler is right. The emphasis is put on the psychological part of the treatment, the dogged, merciless, relentless job of indoctrination. But the torture-maybe Koestler underestimated that. The torture is horror...
Path to "Self-Sufficiency." Perón's take-over of the economy was a casebook example of dictator-knows-best fumbling. His goal was industrialization-nationalistic "self-sufficiency." The main tool was a state foreign-trading agency called (from its initials in Spanish) IAPI...
...cool reception was deliberately planned for two reasons: 1) to show that agreements with Communist governments, even when favorable to the church, are nothing to be endorsed eagerly, or for any reason but strict necessity; 2) to protect Wyszynski himself against the propaganda charge that he is a favored tool of the Vatican. Reported one Vatican correspondent: "If the Polish Communists or the Russians ever ask Wyszynski to persuade the Vatican to any particular course of action, Wyszynski might well reply: 'Go tell it to the Roman fire brigade.' " Insiders report, however, that Pius immensely admires Wyszynski...
...fortnight ago dropped age limits for its on-the-job training classes, opened them to all employees who meet the aptitude requirements. Other industries in many areas are making a direct attack on the idea that only the backward go into vocational training. In Cleveland the big machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with pay, attending college-level technical and engineering classes...
...Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool cut into the metal, there was something like an explosion. Compressed gas in the canister blew radioactive dust into the air and touched off the radiation alarm system...