Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mikoyan's life remained just as closely geared to the dictator's. Britain's former Laborite Secretary for Overseas Trade Harold Wilson recalls that, in tune with Stalin's nocturnal habits, negotiations with Mikoyan "usually began at 10 or midnight and ended at 4 or even 6 a.m. Once he said: 'You in England have been traders for many centuries. But we know how to bargain, too-I come from a long line of Armenian traders!' ): Another time, when Wilson chaffed, "The trouble with you Russians . . ." Mikoyan broke in: "I am not a Russian...
...question is whether India has waited too long to change its tune. Nehru's request for ?200 million was turned aside by Britain during the last Commonwealth Conference in June. The British advised Nehru to try private capital, but private capital is showing itself understandably reluctant about investing in what appears to be a highly unpredictable economy. Besides, private investors are a little uncertain as to the extent and fervor of Indians socialist ambitions. Russia recently agreed to lend India $126 million, reportedly might cough up another $25 million, which would not be much help...
...literary event of the week took place in Paris, where Dans un Mois, Dans un An (In a Month, In a Year), the third novel in four years by Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked...
...these words. When Zionism made the "ingathering" a present political reality, the sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
...farmers are not that foolhardy-if only because they may continue to need help to extricate themselves from the contradictory kind of help that now holds them like a solicitous boa constrictor. But city dwellers and farmers alike should realize that every clay the present program continues-to the tune of $5 billion a year-the situation is going to get worse...