Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's silence-is-the-best-policy stand is probably wise. For there is little question that much of the current economic unrest was caused by Administration words that spoke louder than deeds-beginning with Kennedy's abusive language toward the steel industry. Thus the Wall Street Journal last week reported that even furniture sales have slumped in recent weeks as a result of widespread economic uncertainty. Said Martin Lammert III, president of St. Louis' Lammert Furniture Co.: Business was great. Then Kennedy started feuding with business, the stock market slumped, and our sales have been...
After Paris, Dean Rusk flew to West Berlin and then to Bonn. The Berlin stop was a formality, a mere 2¾-hour duty visit to sign the city's famed Golden Book, confer briefly with Mayor Willy Brandt, peer over the Wall. Although Rusk predicted that some day this "affront to human dignity" would come down, sensitive Berliners complained that the Rusk visit had been perfunctory...
When Walter Ulbricht built his Wall last August, a Western survey of East Berlin opinion showed that 80% were convinced by this show of force that East Germany would be able to dictate the future of West Berlin on its own terms. Many in the West feared the same. Ten months later, the Wall has become a 25-mile symbol of Ulbricht's weakness and the most powerful rallying point for East German resistance to his regime...
Inside there was air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting and dishwashers, and the price was right: $12,950 to $16,950. The builder of Woodland West did little more than dig foundations and pound nails. In everything else, from making elevation surveys to placing newspaper advertisements, the development is the work of L. C. Major & Associates of Downey. Calif., pioneers in the art of tractitioning...
Prime movers in this proliferation of trade blocs are the underdeveloped nations, which live by exporting raw materials, and fear that the common tariff wall being built by Europe's Six will freeze their products out of traditional markets. By developing their own customs unions-each with monopolies on materials that Europe needs and consumers that Europe wants-the outsiders figure that they can deal from strength against Europe, or the U.S. As yet, however, most of the "little common markets" consist largely of ambitious names...