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...break, the President strode in to confront the negotiators, spent a full 43 minutes bombarding them with hard statistics and "a few pious thoughts," as he called them. He was in rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
During World War I, long before the Maccabees of Leon Uris' Exodus, a tiny Jewish spy ring began operating against the Turkish rulers of Palestine. It was an unlikely group: an agronomist, a poet, a mule trader, a part-time fiddler, two frightened young women and a handful of farmers, none of whom had ever spied before. As this unusual and essentially accurate novel shows, it was a bitter and frustrating adventure-for those who lived through...
Blood on the Bridge. The boy was Burywaise Elwin, a 17-year-old Honduran, and the only one of an eight-man crew left alive on board after a fury of politics, mutiny and murder. Elwin told the Coast Guardsmen that the Seven Seas was a banana trader on her way from Miami to Tampa. Shortly after 10 o'clock the night before, he left the hot crew quarters aft to get some air. As he was leaving, he passed Cuban Crewman Roberto Ramírez, 35, who seemed in a big hurry. "I heard a shot and turned...
...seem intent on submerging. They are not going to join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader who has set himself up in business in Ceylon...
West Germany is the world's second largest trader after the U.S. Yet German political influence is not remotely equal to its economic power. In foreign affairs, Bonn is subservient not only to Washington, but often to London and Paris, and it moves uncertainly in the rest of the world; during the recent Middle Eastern imbroglio, West Germans felt that they were kicked around even by the Arabs...