Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Such cultural entities as the National Peking Opera Theater were put under army control for having harbored artists who tried to "undermine the revolution and oppose change." China's Young Communist League was disbanded and replaced by the Red Guards, the Women's Federation condemned, and the Trade Union Federation declared to be rotten with revisionism. Even the directors of the New China News Agency were attacked last week and demands made that they be ousted...
...official disapproval removed from the act of striking, the regime has not tried to enforce all the law's stipulations. Government mediators have been working furiously since mid-December to try to head off a nationwide rail strike threatened by the National Transportation Syndicate, a supposedly docile trade union controlled by the government. In Barcelona last week, a series of sitdown strikes at the government-owned SEAT auto plant brought a government agreement to study the workers' demands for higher pay. In Bilbao, 750 sheet-metal workers have been on strike since the end of November to protest...
Gift returns do not end with the after-Christmas rush; birthdays, anniversaries and weddings make it a year-round problem. One answer is the West Los Angeles Gift Exchange, dreamed up by Ted and Shirley Margulis. The Margulises have set up a trade center where everyone can swap what they got but don't want for what they do. They will accept practically anything, including Indian brassware and whirlpool baths (but not adults' clothing or initialed gifts). They check prices against a list of 150,000 items carried by local stores, give the customer a credit slip (subtracting...
...except for the fact that she was a Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus at IBM casually sent a newspaper clipping about the campaign to retired IBM World Trade Corp. Vice President James G. Johnston. Although Johnston had never so much as seen Redlands, back from Cannes came his check...
Just about the commonest complaint seen by the surgeon is one of the least talked-about but most advertised of human conditions: hemorrhoids, or piles. Last week the Federal Trade Commission decided that some clear talk was needed not only about hemorrhoids, but about the advertising claims made by manufacturers of suppositories and ointments for their treatment. These preparations, said the FTC, "at best only afford temporary relief of minor itching . . . and some types of pain." So it ordered the companies "to stop falsely advertising them as cures...