Word: trickiest
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...China Issue. In the East-West power struggle the trickiest resolution by far would be an old familiar item, admission of Red China to the U.N.-either as an additional member or in place of Formosa's Chinese Nationalists who have held a Security Council seat since 1945. For a decade, U.S. policy has been to keep the question off the agenda, prevent even a debate. But the changed U.N. power balance has led to changed U.S. tactics, and the first test will occur in this week's Security Council meeting...
Perhaps because they do not realise that economic development is one of the trickiest subjects in the world, perhaps because they know it all too well, the political leaders of this country and the candidates for their posts have spent the summer talking a good deal of drivel about poor countries, some of it inane, much of it puerile, and nearly all of it misleading. They have appealed to charity ("in India a man's average annual income is $80"), to conscience (development means new self-respect, new freedom"), and self-interest ("the outcome of the cold war depends...
...trickiest carpentry job of the year belongs to the man who will have to hammer together a campaign platform for the much-splintered Democratic Party. Last week National Chairman Paul Butler picked a platform chairman who, like Butler, 1 ) wants a strong civil rights plank, and 2) is on record as supporting Jack Kennedy for the presidency. Butler pushed Connecticut's freshman Congressman Chester Bowles, 59, and the party's arrangements committee, meeting in Los Angeles, unanimously accepted...