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...fact was acknowledged by the Common Market. Because of longstanding political hostility to Dictator Franco, the Six steadfastly refuse to grant Spain the membership he badly wants. But meeting in Brussels, the Market ministers agreed to hold "exploratory talks" on joint economic problems. Spaniards, who had feared a complete turndown and their regime's retreat to isolation, were jubilant...
...Turndown. A calm and casual executive, Hansberger invests half his time in flying visits to company offices, spends Saturday mornings with his staff in the main office "to do all the weighty philosophizing that you can get done when the phone isn't ringing." Along with other company executives, he dabbles in Idaho Republicanism, puts himself "somewhere between Goldwater and Rockefeller, but probably on the liberal side." He turned down an offer to run for the U.S. Senate last year "because the company wasn't quite mature enough to leave alone then." Idahoans suspect that his high ambitions...
...Haughty Turndown. The savings and loan industry started as a sort of social protest movement among low-paid people who pooled their resources to finance one another's homes after the banks of the day turned them away. It remained a relatively small part of the U.S. financial world until the postwar housing boom came along, turning a nation in which the majority of families had been tenants into one in which two-thirds of all families are homeowners. Since then, S & Ls have prospered most where homes are going up the fastest. Four of the five largest associations...
...derives from General William Tecumseh Sherman's famed turndown to a supporter at the 1884 Republican convention: "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected...
...hour session with Hurwitch alone. Miro demanded that the U.S. provide $50 million for an anti-Castro military operation, get the hemisphere to join in such a drive, and give the exiles "the same kind of help that the Soviet Union gives to Castro." The result was a flat turndown: Miro was told that the U.S. remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies to be controlled by exile "war parties." In acid Spanish, Hurwitch told Miro that the exiles must fall into line or "no Cuban exile will obtain...