Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Holt's death last week, the friendly cooperation disappeared, and the differences that Holt had smoothed over suddenly threatened to wreck the coalition. On one side is Country Party Leader John McEwen, Holt's Minister of Trade and Deputy Prime Minister, who automatically succeeded to the prime ministership until new Liberal Party elections can be held Jan. 9. On the other side is the Liberal Party's William McMahon, Holt's Treasurer, the party's second-in-command and Holt's heir apparent. Over the years, small policy disagreements between the two have...
Europeans, and others, often resent what they consider American arrogance. "However much I like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that...
...alliance's traditional defense missions a new diplomatic dimension. Acting on the recommendation of Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel, the ministers voted to use NATO's consultative machinery to coordinate Western contacts with the Eastern bloc. In this way, the ministers hope that their countries can use trade and cultural exchange with the East as leverage to work for mutual troop reduction...
...long tradition of political placidity, have been aroused enough this year to challenge police and send up smoke bombs in their demands for "political emancipation" and a bigger voice in running their universities. More than a third of the students in Dutch universities have joined a militant Students' Trade Union, which is planning a "counter-university" similar to student-run "free universities...
...pros, and now, at 24, he is starting out in a man's game where practically every competitor can match his 6-ft. 5-in. size, and even the bench warmers were stars back home. What's more, they have been working at their trade. "I only played six games at Oxford last year," says Bradley, and his training with the Knicks was limited to one workout...