Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's "serious political provocation" was extending an invitation to a Taiwan trade delegation, after having canceled trade with China last month. General Suharto's government replied by announcing that it would pull the entire Indonesian embassy staff out of Peking and send them on "vacation." Ceylon got a nasty diplomatic note because two Ceylonese M.P.s and a newspaper publisher had visited Taiwan...
...much entertainment lately - the glowing centennial of its independence, the excellent Montreal Expo, the amusing visit from Charles de Gaulle - its politics have been rather dreary. The Liberal government under Lester Pearson has gone quietly on its way, strengthening relations between French-and English-speaking Canada, expanding foreign trade, and boosting an economy that has been growing 6% a year...
...prudent for employers to avoid hiring ex-convicts, but it is hard on the ex-cons. Even a one-time loser who wants to go straight can find him self wandering from employment office to employment office, gradually realizing that the only trade he is eligible to follow is crime. But now, in Washington, B.C., a group of former convicts is offering a solution: it runs an employ ment agency that places ex-cons only...
Died. Rupert Edward Cecil Guinness, Earl of Iveagh, 93, fifth-generation boss of Guinness Stout, world's second largest brewer (just after Anheuser-Busch), who took over Ireland's largest private employer in 1927, plunged into export trade, saturating British pubgoers with "My Goodness, My Guinness" billboards, and before retiring in 1962 made it the world's largest beer exporter; in Woking, England...
Following the trend in liner operation-to make up for transatlantic trade lost to jets by offering leisure voyages -the ship will cross the North Atlantic in warm weather, switch to southern waters for winter cruising. From keel up, it is designed to do either in such a way as to return a profit. Which, for all their traditions, is something the Queens did not always...