Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. To her nonfictional catalogue of traitors, Dame Rebecca in her sixth novel has now added the imaginary figure of a double agent, plying his unscrupulous trade in fin de siècle Europe...
...business and civic leaders had traveled through Western Europe and Russia. Last year a contingent went to six Southeast Asian countries. TIME'S aim in setting up these trips is to provide leading American businessmen with a direct experience of a major foreign area. To the trade-hungry Communists of Eastern Europe, the latest tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from a trade mission. Those who accepted our invitation paid their own way as concerned citizens, eager to learn about life and politics and economics in countries that...
...Communist leader came in Hungary in a one-hour interview with Deputy Premier Antal Apro. It was a dialogue that would be repeated again and again on the journey. Apro explained the Communist command economy, citing examples of liberalization and improvement, and mildly criticized the U.S. for its trade policies. Then he asked for questions. By their queries, the businessmen showed the careful homework they had done on the background material sent to them before departing...
...point was well taken. In the always-sensitive realm of congressional relations, the department has not been notably successful of late. Rusk has not won acceptance on Capitol Hill of the Administration's policies on foreign aid or increased trade with Russia and Eastern Europe. The Administration plans to push hard next year not only for a trade bill but also for a consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Government will also face renewed heckling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Viet Nam. In this kind of encounter, Katzenbach has already won his spurs as a diplomat...
...physician is "a man of mediocre intellect, trade-school mentality, limited interests and incomplete personality." He has trouble diagnosing a boil. Scalpel in hand, he needlessly whacks off the nearest tonsil; absentmindedly, he seals sponges, forceps, suture needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...