Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter who plays ball reaps some rewards. Tips come to him from Russian journalists, who have usually been put up to it by their editors. In this way, Jaffe was the first Western correspondent to learn of Khrushchev's ouster. The leaks are often dubious. In the spring of 1964, word went out from a West German wire service that Khrushchev was dead. The story was picked up by papers around the world. Later, the Germans explained that the leak had originated with the Russian news service, Tass. Suspicious correspondents decided that the Central Committee, already scheming to depose...
...Northeast has been a surge of orders. While utility executives have been explaining their failure in Federal Power Commission hearings, the equipment salesmen have been busy answering inquiries and filling orders. They are likely to become still busier as a result of last week's blackout in western Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico (see THE NATION...
Into East Europe's, shaggy capitals each day come scores of eager and secretive men from Western Europe. They are businessmen who have found that it pays to do business with the Communists. Their credentials are impeccably blue chip-Krupp, Volvo, Renault, Imperial Chemical Industries. By day, they hustle off to talk trade with ministers, plant managers and bureaucrats. By night, they cluster in the crowded bars and dining rooms of the hotels frequented mostly by foreigners: Warsaw's Bristol, Prague's Alcron, Bucharest's Athénée Palace. More than at any other...
...hunting is getting better, though Eastern Europe still buys scarcely 4% of Western Europe's exports. Recently Austria's VÖEST sold an entire steel plant to Czechoslovakia. France's Renault signed up to build an auto assembly plant for the East Germans; in Poland, the British Motor Corp. is fighting Italy's Fiat for the contract to build an auto factory. Last week ouside Ploesti in Rumania, Illinois' Universal Oil Products prepared to break ground for a $22.5 million cracking plant-one of the biggest U.S. construction jobs ever undertaken behind the Iron...
Spice & Calories. The most successful salesmen are the least popular ones: the West Germans, whose high enthusiasm and low prices have overcome some of the postwar bitterness. To negotiate deals, West German companies send in up to a dozen men. Other Western countries also give solicitous service, sometimes dispatch salesmen born in Eastern Europe-or eminent public personalities. Recently Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag visited Eastern Europe to sell some goods, and Britain's Lord Snowdon jetted to Prague to talk with Czech buyers at a British industrial design show there...