Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Relations. Congress should authorize U.S. membership in the proposed international Organization for Trade Cooperation and in the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency. "The world has so shrunk that all free nations are our neighbors. Without cooperative neighbors, the U.S. cannot maintain its own security and welfare." Besides keeping up military assistance, the U.S. must continue to give "aid to our friends in building more productive economies...
...called for a ban on the H-bomb without even mentioning safeguards, and labeled the Soviet plan to pull troops out of Central Europe a helpful step to reduce international tensions. Out to prove his "flexibility" in the cause of German reunification, the Chancellor invited the Russians to hold trade talks with West Germany, but also was hoping to get an invitation to visit the U.S. In increasingly showing independence of the U.S., and even querulousness towards it, Adenauer was, whatever else he might be doing, getting in better shape to fight a vigorous election battle...
Characteristically, Bogie went out belting. On Saturday night, the Homely Hills Rat Pack--a crowd of millionaire and movie star drinking pals--met as usual at Bogie's to trade barbs with the "head rat." Lauren ("Baby") Bacall, his fourth wife who first drew his attention in To Have and Have Not when she told him, "If you want anything, all you have to do is whistle," presided as "den mother." Monday morning the children went off to school as usual...
Milk Your Neighbor. In its trade with the satellites, Russia has consistently milked its unhappy neighbors. It overvalues its ruble to set the prices of raw materials, undervalues the currencies of the satellite countries when setting the prices of their products. The upshot of the entire relationship is that satellite nations have been kept so weak economically that Hungary's revolt and Poland's new freedom disrupted the entire system...
...Lumbago. A resort town ever since Bronze Age lumbago sufferers took its waters 3,000 years ago, St. Moritz' modern beginnings date back just a century ago to the day in 1856 when Innkeeper Johannes Badrutt bought the little Kulm Hotel. Johannes was modestly prospering on summer trade when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves. He won his bet. Next...