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...North Atlantic sky in a three-year-old DC-6B one night last week, the foreign ministers of Russia, the U.S., Britain and France took off their jackets and settled down to talk business. The Westerners drank scotch, gin and tonic or "17 to 1" martinis; Gromyko drank Coca-Cola. The late John Foster Dulles, who put so much store by airborne diplomacy, might have derived wry satisfaction from the fact that it was his funeral that had finally broken the two-week-old impasse at Geneva, and enabled the ministers at last to talk informally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Off the Ground? | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Duellists | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

CEMENT SHORTAGE is stalling construction jobs in Northeast, South and Midwest. Two-week-old strike by 12,000 members of United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers union has cut U.S. cement output by one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Time Clock, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...two-week-old steel strike has brought the question from some laymen: Why not arbitrate? Instead of settling the dispute by force, let industry and union turn the dispute over to an expert, impartial arbitrator who would make a binding decision on the basis of facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Way to Ease Labor-Management Strife | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in Tallahassee. Fla., the Negro leaders of a two-week-old bus boycott rejected some surprisingly moderate bus-company concessions, e.g., first come, first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of Negroes and whites), hiring of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro runs. Instead, they demanded complete abolition of Jim Crow seating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Battle of the Buses | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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