Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condition in his legs that makes it painful for him to move, partly by success -his 1956 book, The FBI Story, was a bestseller. But more important was a desire to go back home. He left the A.P. in 1956 to become the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau chief, quit in 1957 and toured the world gathering material for a book on international crime, finally realized that where he really wanted to be was back in Knoxville...
There were other reasons for the smiles in Washington. The new bonds promptly sold at a premium on a when-issued basis. This reduced their yield to buyers to 4.79%, but it also stirred interest in other Government bonds, perked up the market to the best level in weeks. Though nearly $9 billion of Treasury securities fall due Nov. 15 and must be refinanced, they continued strong on the hunch that if the Government comes back with another 5% issue next month, the holders of these notes would receive valuable subscription rights...
...WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--The steel industry yesterday proposed to arbitrate the issue of work rule changes--one of the main obstacles to a steel strike settlement. The union rejected the idea...
...WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--Although diplomats are reluctant to talk about it, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower are falling out of step again on their march to a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...reason for U.S. intransigence to an eastern bloc country lies in the necessity for a majority of seven members of the council to pass an emergency issue on to the General Assembly in case of a Soviet veto. Apparently Washington feels that when such an issue arises it will be unable to carry along with it more than one of the two Latin American or two neutralist countries on the Council. Insisting on this stacked jury makes the whole Council a farce. Even many Scandinavian, Latin American and British Commonwealth nations, usually satellites of the U.S. when voting...