Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process began when Dwight Eisenhower, going beyond mere denunciation of "indirect aggression," advanced positive economic and political proposals. Scarcely had Ike finished speaking, when the Soviet Union gingerly followed the U.S. lead. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "The Soviets are washed up in the Security Council. They know they've got to woo the General Assembly to get anywhere in the U.N., and they have wised up to the fact that sweet reasonableness may get them farther...
With the possible exception of the men who make the Sputniks and a few favored fiddlers, pianists and composers, no one in the Soviet Union enjoys a more enviable lot than the men and women who break sports records. They are pampered and idolized, and, considering their perquisites, they are amateurs only by courtesy. How they behaved outside the stadiums hardly mattered so long as they continued to chalk up a satisfactory quota of victories inside. But last week, as the European championship track and field meet was about to start in Stockholm, Russia's favored athletes found themselves...
...gravely threatened. The parliamentary commission also thought too harsh De Gaulle's implied ruling (TIME, Aug. 18) that any overseas territory casting a majority vote against the new constitution in next month's referendum would be considered to have voted itself clean out of the French Union. Instead, they proposed that, in such a case, the territorial assembly be allowed to decide whether or not to hold a second, local referendum on the specific issue of independence...
...Masters. The Chagga saga began in 1932 when, with the permission of the British, African coffee growers banded together to found the spectacularly successful Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union. In the 26 years since, KNCU, the largest purely native commercial enterprise in colonial Africa, has boosted the Chagga from a tribe barely subsisting to a well-fed people with cash in their pockets. Each year, through their union, the Chagga market a $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 coffee crop. They own and operate a modern restaurant and hotel (The Coffee Tree Hostelry, with a balcony for every room), publish...
...McCarthyist outlook," and few foreign businessmen thought that the strict U.S.-inspired embargo on "strategic" goods to Communist lands made too much sense. The embargo, they argued, had not noticeably stunted Russia's industrial growth; it tended to make Red China more and more dependent on the Soviet Union, and it deprived Western nations of much-needed markets. Over the years, bit by bit, the U.S. has had to give in to such pressure. Last week, after five months of arguing, the Coordinating Committee (COCOM) of European nations, the U.S., Canada and Japan slashed the number of embargoed items...